Could this be the final blow to the theory that the moon is bone dry?
Not
only does the moon's surface hold a "significant amount" of water--as
two
NASA crashes confirmed in October--but, a new study says, the moon's
interior may hold at least a hundred times more water than previously
estimated.
"If we could take all the water which is locked up in the moon's
interior,
it would make a one-meter-deep ocean covering its entire surface," said
lead study author Francis McCubbin, a geologist with the Carnegie
Institution
for Science in Washington D.C.
McCubbin's team reanalyzed old moon-rock samples gathered by Apollo
missions and a lunar meteorite found in a desert in Africa. The findings
indicated that inside the moon "the amount of water is at least 64 parts
per billion, which is two orders of magnitude more than previously
thought," McCubbin
said. "And maybe even more is there."
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