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Evidence of Internal Moon Water Found
The 1-km-high central peak of Bullialdus crater (Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)
Scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon. These findings represent the first such remote detection of this type of lunar water, and were arrived at using data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) carried aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter.
The discovery represents an exciting contribution to the rapidly changing understanding of lunar water according to Rachel Klima, a planetary geologist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of the paper, “Remote detection of magmatic water in Bullialdus Crater on the Moon” published in the August 25 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/104380/evidence-of-internal-moon-water-found/
come on people….put the whole freaking article up for us to read. its so damn annoying to check an article only to have to click a link so i can actually read the story from another website.