Lab experiments suggests water was in moon mix during its formation
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 09:01
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands has found evidence of water on the moon during the time it was formed. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team describes how experiments they conducted in their lab showed that there was a strong likelihood that water was present on the moon shortly after it coalesced from material blasted off the surface of the Earth by a collision with another object such as a planet.