Where can I find more info online about tiny beads of water being found on the moon?
Small bits of volcanic glass were spit out of volcanoes on the Moon from deep inside. Apollo astronauts took samples an brought them back in the 1970’s. Modern instruments have now been able to detect concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen in them, which are the constituent molecules of water. The new instrument has a 95% confidence factor. This means water or its constituents may be locked up in the rocks of the Moon’s interior. Some of the headlines make it sound like oceans of water have been found on the Moon, and that is just not the case. This is not water that you can pump out and drink. This is hydrogen and oxygen locked in the crystallized rock of the Moon’s mantle. This water is not usable for astronauts. It significance is its affect on theories of how the Moon formed. Theories that the Moon formed from debris from a gigantic collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object have always assumed that any volatile elements like water, hydrogen, and oxygen, would have evaporat
