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NASA discovers water trapped inside moons sunlit surfaces, says its more widespread – Republic World
Moon has water in concentrations of 100 to 412 parts per million trapped in a cubic meter of soil spread across the lunar surface, NASA said in a statement.
In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA confirmed on October 31 that its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) found water trapped inside the sunlit surface of the Moon. Confirming that there could be more water on the moon than previously thought of, NASA said, water is not limited to cold, shadowed lunar places but instead is distributed across the entire lunar surface.
SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located…
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