The Moon Is Rusting and Earth May be the Culprit – IGN Nordic

A new study published in Science Advances by lead author, Shuai Li, found that hematite a form of rust was discovered on the Moon.
Rust is made up of iron, oxygen, and water the latter two ingredients being something the Moon is not known to have, which has been puzzling scientists. Li, of the University of Hawaii, examined data from the Indian Space Research Organisations Chandrayaan-1 orbiter, which originally found water-ice on the Moon’s poles in 2008 and continued to map mineralogy on the …

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