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Remote detection of widespread indigenous water in lunar pyroclastic deposits

Milliken, Ralph E.; Li, Shuai

Laboratory analyses of lunar samples provide a direct means to identify indigenous volatiles and have been used to argue for the presence of Earth-like water content in the lunar interior. Some volatile elements, however, have been interpreted as evidence for a bulk lunar mantle that is dry. Here we demonstrate that, for a number of lunar pyroclas…