Water on the Moon: Research Unveils Its Type and Abundance – Gizmodo Australia

The Moon was for a long time considered to be bone dry, with analyses of returned lunar samples from the Apollo missions showing only trace amounts of water. These traces were in fact believed to be due to contamination on Earth. But over the past two decades, re-analyses of lunar samples, observations by spacecraft missions, and theoretical modelling have proved this initial assessment to be wrong.
Water has since been detected inside the minerals in lunar rocks. Water ice has also been discovered…

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