Bizarre Discovery Reveals The Moon Is Rusting, Even Without Liquid Water And Oxygen – ScienceAlert

The Moon, our closest cosmic neighbour, and the only other body in the Solar System on which humans have set foot, is fairly well known to us. We know that there is practically no air. We know that there is water ice, but no liquid water.
So you can understand why the detection of haematite on the Moon has scientists baffled, since haematite is an oxidised form of iron that, here on Earth, requires the presence of both air and water to form.
Especially since the Moon is constantly bombarded wi…

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