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Signs of Water Found in Apollo Mission Lunar Rock Samples
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The tiny pebbles were collected by astronauts during NASA’s Apollo missions of the 1970s, but the techniques used to find the traces of water weren’t available until recently. A new analysis of moon pebbles collected decades ago has found that the small stones contained traces of water. Read the full report.

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