New evidence for a lot of water in the Moon's interior
The idea that the interior of the Moon is water-rich raises interesting questions
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The idea that the interior of the Moon is water-rich raises interesting questions
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Water found on the moon and Earth came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, according to researchers who found evidence in samples of moon dust returned by lunar crews of Apollo 15 and 17.
Saal's research has "spurred a re-evaluation of the moon's formation."
“Lunar volcanic glasses were generated by melting different compositional reservoirs within the interior of the Moon,” geologist Alberto Saal, who recently published a study in Science Advances, told SYFY WIRE. “The different sulfur isotopes of those reservoirs give clues about processes that were responsible for the generation of those different reservoirs within the Moon.” Billions of years ago, volcanoes were throwing heated tantrums on the Moon, which explains the volcanic rock and glass found in lunar regolith samples. When a volcano vomits lava, the lava undergoes the process o...