Nasa Discovers The Moon Is Wet — Now Scientists Want To Go Back

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Tue, 10/27/2020 - 1:13am

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 modeling have proved this initial assessment to be wrong.

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