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Blue Moon: What the Discovery of Water on the Moon Means for the Possibility of Lunar Life

On October 26th, 2020 NASA announced that its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) discovered water for the first time on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This is not the first time water has been detected on the Moon. A Soviet probe took samples from the Moon in 1976 that contained 0.1% water byContinue reading “Blue Moon: What the Discovery of Water on the Moon Means for the Possibility of Lunar Life”