A recent research proposes a unique explanation for the permafrost-locked water discovered on the lunar surface: what if it was grabbed from Earth's upper atmosphere? Three thousand cubic kilometers of water have gone from the Earth to the moon.
Since the moon and Earth formed at around the same time and from almost the same elements, astronomers have turned to our only natural satellite for answers about the Earth's earliest times, which have been wiped by its active geology.
The Earth's magnetosphere, which protects the planet from the Sun's hazardous rays, is not spherical but cone-shaped, courtesy of the solar wind, and the moon passes through the outermost tip of that cone for around five days each month around the time of the full moon.
The article, which was published (read below) in March in Scientific Reports, claims that as the moon travels through that cone, it sweeps up hydrogen and oxygen ions, which are stuck in the magnetic bands. The moon's magnetosph...
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