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Lunar Magma Has Much More Water Than We Thought

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
May 27, 2011
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Lunar Magma Has 800 Times More Water Than Previously Suggested
“A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. Data from these newly-discovered lunar melt inclusions indicate the water content of lunar magma is 100 times higher than previous studies suggested.”
Lunar Water Brings Portions of Moon’s Origin Story Into Question, Carnegie Institution
“Compared with meteorites, Earth and the other inner planets of our solar system contain relatively low amounts of water and volatile elements, which were not abundant in the inner solar system during planet formation. The even lower quantities of these volatile elements found on the Moon has long been claimed as evidence that it must have formed following a high-temperature, catastrophic giant impact. But this new research shows that aspects of this theory must be reevaluated.”

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