There are water molecules and ice up on the Moon, so how did they get there? Asteroid and comet collisions are likely to have produced some of it, but a new study suggests another source of lunar water: the Earth's atmosphere.
and comet collisions are likely to have produced some of it, but a new study suggests another source of lunar water: the Earth's atmosphere.could have created as much as 3,500 cubic kilometers of surface permafrost or subsurface liquid water, scientists say.
Because of the Sun's solar wind pushing against this bubble, some of Earth's magnetic field lines are broken: only tethered to the planet at one end. "It is like the Moon is in the shower – a shower of water ions coming back to Earth, falling on the Moon's surface,"There's no Moon magnetosphere, so as the ions smack into the lunar surface, permafrost is created, the researchers suggest. Some of that frost, through a variety of geological processes, could be driven below the surface and turned into liquid water.
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