BULLETIN
Water, water everywhere across the lunar surface
The Moon’s water could be protected from sunlight inside glass beads
The Moon’s sunlit surfaces could have water locked away within them, a recently released study has shown. Traces of ice are known to hide in the permanently shadowed craters of the southern pole, but this novel find suggests water could be spread across more of the surface – a hopeful sign for future missions hoping to investigate water on the lunar surface.
“Prior to the observations, we knew there was some kind of hydration,” says Casey Honniball, who led the study while doing her graduate thesis at the University of Hawaii. “But we didn’t know how much, if any, was actually water molecules like we drink every day,
