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The lunar water produced by the solar wind

Summary by Ca-Se-Passe-La-haut.fr
When a stream of charged particles coming from the Sun, the solar wind, hits the lunar surface, it triggers chemical reactions that are likely to form water molecules. A team of researchers has just reproduced this bombardment of protons in the laboratory on a lunar sample and they actually manage to create water in the regolith. They publish their study in Journal of Geophysical Research. Most of the solar particles do not reach the Earth's sur…
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When a stream of charged particles coming from the Sun, the solar wind, hits the lunar surface, it triggers chemical reactions that are likely to form water molecules. A team of researchers has just reproduced this bombardment of protons in the laboratory on a lunar sample and they actually manage to create water in the regolith. They publish their study in Journal of Geophysical Research. Most of the solar particles do not reach the Earth's sur…

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ca-se-passe-la-haut.fr broke the news in on Friday, May 2, 2025.
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