It was back in January that China's space program (CNSA) was the first to detect water signals directly from the Moon's surface, thanks to its Chang'e-5 lunar probe. The news made headlines around the world.
Earlier this month, it was further revealed that not all of the Moon's water came from its own surface; some of it was siloed from the Earth's atmosphere. Now, a new study has found a new and unexpected source for the water on the Moon: ancient volcanoes.
The research from the University of Colorado at Boulder was first shared on May 17 and speculates that sheets of ice originating from volcanic eruptions exist on the Moon's poles and, in some places, could even measure dozens or even hundreds of feet.
"We envision it as a frost on the moon that built up over time," said Andrew Wilcoski, lead author of the new study and a graduate student in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder.
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