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My Perspective of Quarantine We must ride on the winds of Change

As everyone knows that corona has changed our lives more than anyone could have had possibly imagined at the We all must ride on
start of 2020. Everyone had plans for the new year, everyone was excited for the new decade but even though it the winds of change,
has not been going the way anyone had planned and despite all the bad aspects of the quarantine and corona, I Never to go back for
am also forced to see the good things too. There have been so many things that have been going on since the the past is out of range.
lockdown started in India. At first, we had started with one day janta curfew, then slowly lockdown started Only to go forward and
increasing and now we have been living in this state for almost 2 months. Now before the lockdown, as I now hope for the best,
realize I was not at all concerned about the current happenings except the news about movies, games and And for the things, we
mobiles. Now I listen to news every day, to see what new is happening, what is the status of corona in India, in encounter they're merely a test.
other countries and in the rest of the world. Now I find myself a little more mature than before but this is only the A test to see if we can endure,
starting of the good effects that I have noticed. There are so many good things about this virus many which most Some things that we know and some we're not sure.
people know about and few that you probably don't know. First of all, what everyone knows is that the pollution
So to adapt we must rearrange,
level has reached an all-time low and this is one of the best news probably, but for me the best news is that at a
For we all must ride
time when even the American government is unable to control the situation but my country, our country, India is
on the winds of change.
able to control the situation a lot better than they could. Apart from these political and worldly issues there are
also many personal things that I have noticed. Now that there is no household help available the workload on my Darpan Jain - IX B Lavanya Thakre - IX B
mother has increased in feel that it is my responsibility to help her and also as now we can't go outside we also
have to find ways to entertain ourselves at home and what I felt is that this should not be done by watching
movies because we already spend a lot of time glued to our screens as all the classes are happening online too so I Space Time
thought why should we spend any more time stuck to the screen than we already have to do so in I have also spent
Space has been the point of interest for millions of people. Space is like a maze with no exit. The universe is so vast
a lot of free time trying to find a new and interesting game and I did that too. Also, I have been thinking, a lot, as I
that every discovery made leads to a new question, a new mystery.
now have a lot of time to do so and now, I feel that I have been able to think about things that I have done and
now I feel like I have been partial and I now regret that but also it is helping me see things from new perspectives, In July 2019, a peculiar gel-like substance was discovered on the lunar surface. This puzzled scientists all over the
something that I haven't been able to do as good as I now can. Also, I feel it has helped increase my patience, my globe. Experts attempted to explain the origin of this mysterious substance, but no explanation seemed
ability to understand the seriousness of things that I didn't know earlier and also it has helped me realise that how satisfactory. Everyone was curious regarding this and was intently glued to the photographs.
important my family and friends are to me. I couldn't have made it through the lockdown without my family at all
After the Chang'e-4 lander landed on the far side of the moon in the Yutu-2 rover had discovered this gel-like
and that also made me realise how important my family is to me and also it makes me think how could I have
substance in the Von Kármán crater within the South Pole Aitken basin.
taken my family for granted at any point of time? It has made me realise the importance of many things, so many
things and I am actually grateful for it. In some ways it has made me grow up and has made me do things that I Now it has been nearly a year and the scientists have been successful in identifying what that substance actually
ever thought I could do like staying in the house for all of summer vacations. I couldn't have even dreamed of is. The analysis made by scientists is now published in the science journal 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
being able to do it but now I am actually doing it. To whoever is reading this I just wish that you are safe and hope Experts have described it as Breccia or an 'impact melt Breccia' specifically.
that by the time you are reading this we aren't in lockdown still. Breccia is formed when fragments of rocks or minerals get fused to form
Bhaskar Hurkat - XII A a gel-like substance. Based on the information, researchers suggest that
the substance was formed by “impact-generated welding, cementing
and agglutinating of lunar eolith and breccia.” The term eolith is used
to refer to the layer of unconsolidated solid material which covers the
bedrock of a planet. It is suspected that the structure was formed
following a meteorite impact at the location.

You might be wondering why a simple gel-like substance was given so
much importance. The lunar landscape is very dry and dusty, and a gel-
like substance was quite unusual. Although in the end it was revealed
that the substance was glossy rather than moist.
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