Chemistry and surface morphology of soil particles from Luna 20 LRL sample 22003.

Optical and scanning electron microscopy, scanning electron microprobes and energy dispersion techniques were applied in an analysis of six siliceous glass spheres, five siliceous glass-bonded agglutinates and one breccia fragment from Luna 20 sample 22003. It is theorized that local meteor impact processes might have been responsible for the formation of most of the glass spheres and that the impacts of relatively high velocity particles might have been responsible for the craters observed on the surfaces of the spheres. The concentrations of iron spherules on the surfaces of the glass spheres were generally lower than in similar Apollo 11 and 12 glass spheres.