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Showing posts with label solar wind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar wind. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The solar wind has brought water to the moon

Equipment "Apollo" provided for researchers to analyze new samples of lunar soil.
Examining the samples of lunar soil by the University of Michigan found that the cause of the water on Earth's satellite has solar wind.

It turned out that the increased content of lunar rock hydroxyl ion OH-, which is formed when a material is a proton (H +) - hydrogen ion brought by the solar wind. Proton captures oxygen from the lunar soil, resulting in a more stable particle - hydroxyl ion. In the interaction with other protons recombine it in water H20,