Recently, there has been a lot of focus on the abundance, distribution, and origin of lunar surface water due to its vital role in future space exploration.
A research team composed of members from the National Space Science Center and the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, both part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered that the grain rims of the soil samples collected by the Chang’e-5 mission have high levels of hydrogen and a low ratio of deuterium to hydrogen, consistent with the theory that lunar water originates from the solar wind.
The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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