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User ID: 25611063 Ireland 10/15/2012 07:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apollo rocks analysis: solar wind made moon water Analyzing grains of soil collected from three Apollo lunar missions, geochemists have figured out that the hydrogen in trace amounts of water on the moon’s surface probably came from solar wind, the outflow of positively-charged hydrogen from the sun. For decades, scientists didn't find much hydrogen in the lunar samples that had been returned to Earth, said Yan Liu, a research professor at the University of Tennessee and lead author of the lunar water study, which was published Sunday in Nature Geoscience. [ link to www.latimes.com] For what it's worth I'm happy. |