Water and Their Precursors (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Water and Their Precursors

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Water and their precursors were stored in lunar silicates and released into the gas phase by (micro)meteorite impact.

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Molecules and data courtesy of Cheng Zhu and Ralf I. Kaiser; background image courtesy of NASA/Goddard/Conceptual Image Lab.

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