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Water on the Moon: a discovery, an estimate, and why it matters – The Indian Express
NASA Water on the Moon Discovery: Previously, water was thought to be limited to cold, shadowed places. Now, SOFIA has detected water molecules in a crater visible…
Written by Mehr Gill
, Kabir Firaque
, Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi |
Updated: October 29, 2020 8:43:08 am
NASA says that the amount of water in the Sahara desert is 100 times more than what SOFIA has detected in the lunar soil. (Reuters Photo: Lucy Nicholson, File)The Moon has water at places where none had been detected before, and has potentially more water than previously believed in regions where it was already understood to exist. In two separate studies in Nature Astronomy, scientists…
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