Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]JPL has/had a similar display, and I do remember the day I had the same experience you had in Houston. It seems impossible to get goose bumps from touching a rock. Try it yourself..... Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com On 6/12/2020 10:14 PM, Peter Klein via LUG wrote: > Yes, really. At the NASA visitor center, they have an exhibit of moon > rocks brought back by the Apollo missions. One of them is epoxied into > a clear plastic container with a slot for visitor's hands, so we can > touch the rock. So I did. This was during our visit to Texas in late > February, just before the pandemic hit the U.S. and the lockdown was > imposed. > > Anyway, I did the best I could with the plastic barriers.? Quite a > thrill to actually touch a piece of the moon. > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/49999863973/in/dateposted-public/> > > > For the geologically inclined, here are several more moon rocks. The > first one looks like very old meat loaf in cross-section... > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/50000637892/in/dateposted-public/> > > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/50000380346/in/dateposted-public/> > > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/49999863963/in/dateposted-public/> > > > Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 20/1.7.? Enjoy! > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information