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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the clue delivery of the holy Buddha! CTOnews.com, March 30, is there any water on the moon? If so, where do you hide it? The lunar samples brought back by Chang'e-5 provide us with clues.

According to CTOnews.com, meteorites and asteroids will melt the lunar surface's soil and rock after hitting the moon in space, and these melts will be sputtered out, forming droplets that cool and form impact glass beads. In the Chang'e-5 lunar sample, there are a large number of impact glass beads.

On March 27, an article published in the international academic journal Natural Geoscience introduced the research results of Chinese and British scientists who found water in the impact glass beads in the lunar samples of Chang'e-5, the Science and Technology Daily reported. The researchers measured the water content in the center and edge of the glass beads and found that the water content in the glass beads decreased gradually from the edge to the center. They speculate that this is because hydrogen atoms in the solar wind enter the glass beads, where they are diffused and preserved.

Impact glass beads researchers say the average water content in glass beads can reach 0.05%, equivalent to 0.5 kilograms of water in a ton of glass beads. The water here is not what we usually call liquid water, but exists in the form of hydrogen atoms in glass beads and can be converted into water that we can use through chemical reactions.

The study reveals a new mechanism that shows that the impact of glass beads on the moon's surface is a huge "reservoir" that can maintain the moon's water cycle. Based on the analysis of the lunar soil thickness on the global scale, the team speculated that the maximum water storage capacity of the lunar soil is about 270 billion tons. This is of great significance for human future deep space exploration, because impact glass beads may be used as potential water sources, as long as we can effectively collect and extract them.

It is also believed that there is an aquifer deep in the lunar soil, but this aquifer has not been discovered.

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