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The first on-the-ground detection of water on the Moon’s surface was reported by an international team of researchers, including Shuai Li, a planetary geologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Data from China's Chang'E-5 lunar lander analyzed by an international team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that the robotic spacecraft has, for the first time, detected traces of water in the rocks and regolith on the Moon's surface.

It’s been announced that China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe detected water on the moon during its mission. In fact, there could be as much as 120 parts per million of water in the regolith (a layer of unconsolidated rocky material that covers bedrock). The water signals were found in reflectance spectral data collected by the Chang’e-5... Read more »

The Chinese team found that in some types of rock, at a mid-latitude on the moon, molecules of H20 were present at about 120 parts per million, and others at 180ppm.