THURSDAY,' APRIL 2, 1970
Moon-dust Arrives at University
Rocks Undergo Tests
"We know pretty well what's in the lunar material,"
says a University geochemist. "Now we want to know
how it got there."
The interpretive stage of lunar material investigation
is now beginning and the University has been chosen as
one of the institutions to undertake it.
The first of what will amount to about a thimblefull
of moon-rock and moon-dust from the Apollo 12 flight
has arrived here. But to scientists accustomed to studying
solids "by the atom" it's as good as a carload.
The first material is a thin slice of lunar rock #12038.
More will follow in ensuing weeks. Public display of a
portion of the consignment is being explored with NASA
officials.
"It's very beautiful under the microscope," says Arnulf
Muan, one of the men who will work with the first
sample. "One can see at a glance that one is looking at
something quite different from earth rocks. It is fresh, un
scratched, uncorroded altogether most impressive and
breathtaking."
In University laboratories some of it will be melted,
some vaporized with a laser, some probed with light and
some will be photographed with a unique, computerized
scanning electron microscope.
All the investigators will in effect be asking: What
went on in the moon (or at its surface) to bring these
materials to their present state? Each group will be try
ing to reconstruct some process of lunar development.
This work is interpretive; it should ultimately con
tribute to man's understanding of the origin of the moon,
and perhaps of the solar system.
Arnult Muan and E. F. Osborn will melt tiny chunks
of lunar material to 2500 degrees (F), hold it at that tem
perature then quickly cool it. They will be using a melting
crucible and techniques developed by them for the study
of the phases through which terrestrial rocks and minerals
develop.
It is of considerable importance for lunar-origin
theories that geochmeists know precisely how the minerals
were formed: whether they were the products of melting
associated with volcanos or of melting associated with
meteorite impact or both. Muan and Osborn, working
with earth-rocks, have developed an understanding of
such processes against which they can now compare lunar
rock data. They will be working in cooperation with J. F.
Schairer of the Carnegie Institution Geophysical Labora
tory in Washington.
One of the big scientific surprises of the Apollo find
ings is the presence of large quantities of glass, par
ticularly in the powdery moon-dust.
A measure of the surprise is the fact that only one
proposal was submitted to NASA for the investigation of
lunar glass technically: amorphous—non-crystalline—
material. That proposal came from the University's Ma
terials Research Laboratory, one of the few U.S. labora
tories that have intensively specialized in amorphous ma
terials.
Under the direction of Rustum Roy, a materials group
will be trying to determine the size and shape of the tiny
particles described as "glass beads" by some reporters,
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and the way in which they are distributed in the moon
dust. The laboratory has been doing this kind of work
on certain particles found in polluted air. The lunar par
ticles will be photographed by what was the first scanning
electron microscope in the world hooked-up to a computer.
As the microscope scans a group of particles, photograph
ing them with three-dimensional realism, the computer
stores size-and-density information which can be retrieved
in seconds when interpretative analysis is under way.
Again, the scientists will be asking: how did the glass
form? And again, they will be able to relate their findings
to knowlege about amorphous material "evolution" gained
in many years of experimentation. Again, too, lunar origin
theories may stand or fall on the results of such studies.
Amorphous material is, by definition, all a-jumble; it
has no regular structure characteristic of crystalline mat
ter. Yet, there are new ways to get at the jumble; one
was developed at the University and is known as laser
mass spectrometry.
Its developers, Bruce Knox and Franc's Vast Ola, will
vaporize tiny sections of moon-dust by bombardment with
a laser beam. The resulting vapor will contain relatively
large fragments of the solid. These are detected in a time
of-flight mass spectrometer. From the findings the scien
tists can work backwards to reconstruct the "jumbled"
structure which, though not orderly, nevertheless needs
to be understood if interpretations about the origin of the
material are to be made.
Others in the Materials Research Laboratory will be
looking at the constituents of the moon-glass by causing
it to emit x-rays whose distribution yields clues to struc
ture; and still others will be studying luminescence of the
tiny glass particles, again for clues as to structure. Finally,
the glass will be subjected to a wide range of pressures as
the scientists try to find out how much force it takes to
generate a certain density. A bit of amorphous material
that has been melted and cooled contains a built-in record
of the pressure involved in making the melt.
All of these experiments will be going on simul
taneously at the University and the results will eventually
be correlated with other findings relative to the lunar
material.
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State Conservation Laboratory
Celebrates Silver Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago they called
it "conservation education."
Today it's "environmental con-
But the product is the same a
generation of teachers, many of whom
took their first walk through a virgin
forest or stood for the first time on the
banks, of a sparkling mountain stream
under the auspices of a pioneering pro
gram. . .
Sponsored by the University, this
program, known as the Pennsylvania
Conservation Education Laboratory,
enrolled its first class of summer stu
dents in 1946. They called themselves
"The Guinea Pigs."
"The whole idea of conservation
education was new then, and our lab
was the first of its kind," George T.
Free, who retired as a professor of
education at the University in 1966,
said.
"There were," said Free, "a num
ber of forward-looking organizations
in the Commonwealth who believed
that all teachers, no matter what their
subjects, could work material on con.-
servation into the curriculum. The
trouble was that many teachers had
had no first-hand experience with our
natural resources."
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bureaus 'and sportsmen's and women's
clubs, the Conservation Lab came into
being, he said, dedicated to showing
teachers everything from the inside of
a coal mine to a fish hatchery.
"There were two field trips, or one
very long one, six days a week. Nights
were devoted to lectures by professors
of elementary and secondary education
showing the students how to in
corporate what they'd seen and learned
into their teaching," he said.
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standing in a stream scanning the
waters to get an idea of what fish feed
on. They visited strip mines and became
acquainted with the problems created
for the countryside. There were excur
sions to tree nurseries, sawmills and
farms.
"Don't forget," Free said, "that al
though conservation was important 25
years ago, we didn't yet have any an
swers for many of the problems that
we saw. And the problems themselves
were different. We didn't worry much
about air pollution, for example, in
1946."
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tory will celebrate a silver anniversary
reunion, in what has become an annual
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"In the first years," Free said, "we
took field trips throughout the State.
Hut the group is largely retired now
and we've become more sedentary. Our
attendance, however, has never fallen
below 60 per cent."
The current Pennsylvania Conser
vation Laboratory for Teachers is di
rected by H. Seymour Fowler, profes
sor of secondary education. He said he
expects some 40 teachers to attend the
July 12-31 session. The group will be
equally divided between men and
women and elementary and secondary
personnel.
"You can read a lot about con
servation, but it won't inspire your
teaching unless you've actually ex
perienced it," Free said.
"Our graduates through the years
have gone back to start conservation
clubs throughout Pennsylvania. They've
made the children they taught aware
of then• natural resources and the irre
placeable value of them." he said.
"We believe they were influential
in helping focus public attention on the
problems of land erosion, for example,"
Free said, "and maybe they've helped
a little to create the climate that has
fostered today's tremendous public
awareness of ecological problems."
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