Future lunar settlers may not have to worry about carrying water from Earth. According to new research, there could be large amounts of water just under the orb’s surface.
Colors on this satellite image show areas where water was detected in ancient pyroclastic flows on the Moon’s surface
For a long time, scientists didn’t think the Moon had any water, Hannah Lang writes for National Geographic. But in 2008, a study published in the journal Nature, revealed that samples of volcanic glass brought back in the 1970s during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions contained trace amounts of the stuff. Later studies continued to hint at the existence of water, but samples were spotty. Because of this, there was not enough evidence to say how common water is on our celestial buddy and whether most of it could actually lurk beneath the crust. Read more
