3 questions after the discovery of water molecules on the sunlit moon – PBS NewsHour

In 2018, astronomers directly confirmed for the first time that water, in the form of ice, is on the moons surface. Aptly named water ice resides in the coldest, darkest parts of our planets satellite, like the shadow-shrouded craters that dot its polar regions, the deepest parts of which never see sunlight.
But new research published Monday verified a suspicion that researchers had long been unable to confirm. A team of scientists who studied a slice of the moon aboard NASAs Stratospheric Observatory…

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