Scientists Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon

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Scientists Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon Posted: 27 May 2011 05:43 AM PDT There is water inside the moon -- so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions. Those measurements show that some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as Earth's upper mantle. [via] Lunar melt inclusions are tiny globules of molten rock trapped within crystals that are found in volcanic glass deposits... [[ Click Through for the rest of the post, and other interesting content. ]]

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