Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 10:31 in Earth & Climate

A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally -- revealing clues about how water originated and was redistributed in the Moon. These discoveries provide a new tool to unravel the processes involved in the formation of the Moon, how the lunar crust cooled, and its impact history.

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