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Water on the Moon

Juramike View Member Profile	Jul 9 2008, 08:38 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345	Recent space.com article describes H2O detected in Apollo samples of volcanic glass beads: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080709-moon-water.html The authors estimate this implies a concentration of 260 ppm H2O in the lunar magma. [The article states this is close to the level of H2O in some Earth magma environments] -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/

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Juramike Water on the Moon Jul 9 2008, 08:38 PM

dvandorn Well, it makes a certain amount of sense. If the ... Jul 9 2008, 10:32 PM

Juramike Water in the Moon Water in Mercury's atmospher... Jul 10 2008, 03:41 AM

nprev Likewise wow, and I'll be damned. (Well, th... Jul 10 2008, 01:01 PM

Juramike Long, long ago. When things started to outgas and... Jul 10 2008, 10:54 PM

dvandorn Why not? Three words: global magma ocean. The e... Jul 11 2008, 04:19 AM

Juramike QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jul 11 2008, 12:19 AM) ... Jul 11 2008, 05:30 PM

nprev I hope that LRO will dedicate some time to monitor... Jul 12 2008, 12:55 AM

dvandorn I'm unsure of that radon report -- the Moon do... Jul 12 2008, 04:36 AM

kenny The BBC has a fairly detailed report on doubts cas... Mar 22 2014, 03:44 PM

Vultur Interesting. But that seems only to relate to hyd... Mar 22 2014, 05:40 PM

marsbug The ice thought to be in the shadowed polar crater... Apr 2 2014, 08:56 PM

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