How Ingredients for Water Could Be Made on Surface of Moon

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 10:00 in Astronomy & Space

When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon’s surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), they enrich the Moon’s surface in ingredients that could make water, NASA scientists have found. Using a computer program, scientists simulated the chemistry that unfolds when the […]

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