There&#39;s Water On the Moon&#39;s Surface, But Interior Could Be Dry

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Sunday, August 8, 2010

There's Water On the Moon's Surface, But Interior Could Be Dry

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With all the recent news of water on href="http://www.universetoday.com/19424/the-moon/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">the Moon, a new paper published today in the journal Science may offer a surprise ? or it may bring us back to previous assumptions about the href="http://www.universetoday.com/46646/moon/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Moon. A new analysis of eleven lunar samples from the href="http://www.universetoday.com/41598/apollo-missions/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Apollo missions by Zachary Sharp from the University of New Mexico and his colleagues indicates that when the Moon formed, its interior was essentially dry. While the recent findings of ubiquitous water and hydroxyl on the surface as well as water ice in the lunar poles are not challenged by this new finding, it does dispute — somewhat — two other recent papers that proposed a wetter lunar interior than previously thought. "The recent LCROSS findings were of water on the href="http://www.universetoday.com/13625/japanese-moon-mission-returns-detailed-maps-of-the-lunar-surface/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">lunar surface due to cometary impacts, and the ice is from the href="http://www.universetoday.com/40186/comets/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">comets themselves," Sharp told href="http://www.universetoday.com/36425/the-universe/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Universe Today. "We are talking about water that was present in the molten early Moon 4.5 billion years ago."/> (...)
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