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The Bone-Dry Moon Might be Damp

The Bone-Dry Moon Might be Damp. The idea that the Moon is almost totally devoid of water has been around since the return of the first lunar samples in 1969 New analyses of lunar volcanic glasses suggest that the idea is wrong. Orange volcanic glass deposit in field and thin section.

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The Bone-Dry Moon Might be Damp

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  1. The Bone-Dry Moon Might be Damp • The idea that the Moon is almost totally devoid of water has been around since the return of the first lunar samples in 1969 • New analyses of lunar volcanic glasses suggest that the idea is wrong Orange volcanic glass deposit in field and thin section. www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept08/MoonWater.html

  2. The Bone-Dry Moon Might be Damp • H2O is correlated with S, F, and Cl • Shows that all have been lost by diffusion after eruption, not added by other sources such as solar wind implantation www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept08/MoonWater.html

  3. The Bone-Dry Moon Might be Damp Calculations show that the volatile loss is best matched by cooling at 2ºC/second and if the initial H2O was 745 ppm—far from a bone dry Moon. www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept08/MoonWater.html

  4. The Bone-Dry Moon Might be Damp The amount of H2O in the Moon affects our understanding of processes in the proto-lunar disk, the result of a giant impact with the growing Earth. www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept08/MoonWater.html

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