spaceverse on Instagram: "During Apollo 17, astronauts made a surprising discovery at the Taurus–Littrow Valley: bright orange soil scattered across the lunar surface. This wasn’t paint or dust—it was made of tiny volcanic glass beads, formed during ancient fire-fountain eruptions billions of years ago. This find was a big deal. It proved the Moon was once volcanically active, not a completely dead world as many scientists believed. Those glass beads preserved clues about the Moon’s interior, he