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The Earth’s Magnetosphere Might be Creating Water on the Moon – Universe Today
The Moon’s water may have come, at least partly, through a so-called “water bridge” between the Earth and the Moon. (Shhhh. Don’t tell the astrologers.)
There’s no doubt that the Moon has water on its surface. Orbiters have spotted deposits of ice persisting in the perpetual shadows of polar craters. And recent research shows that water exists in sunlit parts of the Moon, too.
Over the years, scientists have presented evidence that the Moon’s water came from comets, from asteroids, from inside the Moon, and even from the Sun.
But now new research is pointing the finger directly at Earth as the source of some of the Moon’s water.
The new study is…
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