Moganite Discovered in a Lunar Meteorite Points to Ice in the Moon's Subsurface (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Moganite Discovered in a Lunar Meteorite Points to Ice in the Moon's Subsurface (1 of 3)

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Photograph of lunar meteorite NWA 2727. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 02 May 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Kayama at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Discovery of moganite in a lunar meteorite as a trace of H2O ice in the Moon's regolith."

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[Credit: Masahiro Kayama and M. Sasaoka (SASAMI-GEO-SCIENCE)]

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