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A Productive Collision

Caption: Peter Schultz and graduate student Brendan Hermalyn analyzed data from bits of the Moon’s surface kicked up by a NASA-engineered collision. They found unexpected complexity -- and traces of silver.

Credit: Mike Cohea and Richard Lewis, Brown University

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