Watch out Yosemite — the moon has its own impressive rock display.
An enormous chunk of granite, measuring roughly 50 kilometers wide, may be buried beneath the lunar surface, researchers reported July 5 in Nature. Finding such a behemoth, by far the largest granite structure spotted beyond Earth, is a surprise given that forming this type of rock typically requires plate tectonics or abundant water.
When Apollo astronauts landed on the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, they encountered
My mother Gwynneth Tighe was the It-girl of her day. The youngest of two daughters from a grand Anglo-Irish family, she was impossibly beautiful, incurably romantic, had porcelain skin, a willing smile and was a model as well as Debutante of the Year.
But when it came to her children, her heart seemed to have been carved from granite.
She abandoned me when I was two, leaving me in a hedgerow on the back lane of our Devon farm in
