Evidence of water spotted on the moon's surface by a sharp-eyed
spacecraft likely originated from an unknown source deep in the lunar
interior, scientists say.
The find — made by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard
India's Chandrayaan-1 probe — marks the first detection of such
"magmatic water" from lunar orbit and confirms analyses performed
recently on moon rocks brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts four decades ago, researchers said.
"Now that we have detected water that is likely from the interior of
the moon, we can start to compare this water with other characteristics
of the lunar surface," study lead author Rachel Klima, of the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., said in a statement. [Water on the Moon: The Search in Photos]
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