The moon’s surface is probably closer to green cheese than to solid rock. Blue cheese may be more accurate than green when an astronaut finally steps off into the rough, dark, opaque material left by micrometeorite bombardment.
Dr. Thomas Gold, director of the center for radiophysics and space research, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.,
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