Moon’s hidden secret: Scientists reveal how it quietly stored ice for 1.5 billion years |
Scientists have intensely studied the Moon’s polar regions due to the ice found in Permanently Shadowed Regions. The newest study in Nature Astronomy confirms that the Moon has been accumulating ice for about 1.5 billion years. Researchers used data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to determine that the build-up of ice is a steady-state…