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Open AccessSurges in volcanic activity on the Moon about two billion years ago
The history of mare volcanism critically informs the thermal evolution of the Moon. However, young volcanic eruptions are poorly constrained by remote observations and limited samples, hindering an understandi...
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Open AccessA solar wind-derived water reservoir on the Moon hosted by impact glass beads
The past two decades of lunar exploration have seen the detection of substantial quantities of water on the Moon’s surface. It has been proposed that a hydrated layer exists at depth in lunar soils, buffering ...
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Open AccessGAUSS - genesis of asteroids and evolution of the solar system
The goal of Project GAUSS (Genesis of Asteroids and evolUtion of the Solar System) is to return samples from the dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is the most accessible candidate of ocean worlds and the largest reser...
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Open AccessA dry lunar mantle reservoir for young mare basalts of Chang’e-5
The distribution of water in the Moon’s interior carries implications for the origin of the Moon1, the crystallization of the lunar magma ocean2 and the duration of lunar volcanism2. The Chang’e-5 mission returne...
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On water in nominally anhydrous minerals from mantle peridotites and magmatic rocks
Trace amount of water associated with the lattice defects of nominally anhydrous minerals (NAMs) can be measured using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS)....
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Water in lunar anorthosites and evidence for a wet early Moon
Water has been detected on the lunar surface and attributed to delivery by impacts and the solar wind to a dry early Moon. Spectroscopic detections of water in lunar anorthosites from the Apollo collection sug...
