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Water in lunar anorthosites and evidence for a wet early Moon

Authors :
Hejiu Hui
Anne H. Peslier
Clive R. Neal
Youxue Zhang
Source :
Nature Geoscience. 6:177-180
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.

Abstract

Water has been detected on the lunar surface and attributed to delivery by impacts and the solar wind to a dry early Moon. Spectroscopic detections of water in lunar anorthosites from the Apollo collection suggest that a significant amount of water is indigenous to the Moon.

Details

ISSN :
17520908 and 17520894
Volume :
6
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature Geoscience
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........c5411d945362d7ee2920235309aa061b
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1735