Chinese Moon Mission Finds a Potential Water Reservoir in Lunar Soil

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Samples brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission contain signs of water, according to a new study.

that water molecules sit on the Moon’s sunlit surface, and water ice could lurk in the satellite’s shadowy recesses.

Water on the lunar surface is lost to space, indicating that there must be a hydrated layer or reservoir that replenishes the Moon’s supply, according to a Chinese Academy of Sciencespaper, a team of researchers posit that glass beads in the lunar soil formed by asteroid impacts give rise to solar wind-derived water.

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