Water discovered in Apollo moon rocks

Scientists have discovered tiny amounts of water in some of the famous moon rocks brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts.Recently NASA crashed two spacecraft into the moon and orbiters scanned the lunar surface for telltale light signatures.

…The finding is “one of the first to detect water in a lunar magmatic mineral” and adds to evidence that moon magma, in general, contains trace amounts of water, according to geoscientist Francis McCubbin, who participated in the research….

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Water discovered in Apollo moon rocks

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