Detecting water on the surface of the Moon

The surface of the Moon is surrounded by a layer of icy soil, containing a large amount of water for the entire human race, The Telegraph (UK) cited a research report on October 15.

By studying soil samples collected from the Moon after Apollo missions, scientists at the University of Tennessee (USA) discovered that the soil sample contained water in the form of a compound called hydrogenxyl.

Researchers conjecture that these countries are more likely to be formed by continuous flow of molecules fired from the Sun, or 'magnetic storm' phenomenon .

The storm from the Sun helped form
hydrogen hydroxyl on the Moon's surface - (Photo: Reuters)

Magnetic storm is a stream of small molecular particles emitted from the Sun. They cannot reach Earth because they are prevented by magnetic fields; however, the Moon does not have this protection.

It is known that in recent years, there has been evidence that the concept of the Moon is an arid planet is wrong.

In 2009, a satellite of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) crashed into a hole in the Moon that fired up a patch of soil containing large amounts of ice.

Although there is evidence of the existence of water on the Moon, there is a problem that still hurts scientists that is the source of the water.

Scientists analyzed soil samples from the Moon and found that they contained hydrogen molecules with a chemical composition similar to those found in magnetic storms.

So scientists believe that magnetic storms carry hydrogen molecules to the Moon and combine with oxygen here to form the hydrogenxyl on the Moon's surface.

Hydroxyl is a compound that is similar to water, but only one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom.

The findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience Journal (UK). Dr. Marc Chaussidon at the University of Lorraine (France) judged it 'opening new directions to another source of water in the solar system.