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HTTP:: Ideas on How the Moon Got Its Waters
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Columbia University astrophysicist Arlin Crotts has been involved in a number of theoretical studies over the years predicting the existence of water on the Moon, something that was only accurately confirmed less than a month ago. In one of his latest works, written together with graduate student Cameron Hummels, and sent for publication to the Astrophysical Journal, the scientist argues that widespread water exists on the lunar surface, and he also provides an explanation for how it got there, Space reports. “I am predicting something that just happened, that nobody else was predicting. I hope people recognize that this is a true prediction of the spatial distribution of water around the moon,” the expert says. Recently, when three independent lunar probes confirmed the existence of water on the Earth's natural satellite, most scientists were surprised, because they thought it was bone-dry. However, Crotts was not one of them, as his models have shown this to be a po!
ssibility for quite some time now. Data collected from the space probes, confirming the existence of water molecules all over the Moon's surface, appear in three papers, published in the September 25 issue of the top journal Science. Until then, astronomers believed that traces of water-ice might have only existed in the shadowed crater...
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