For example, the researchers found higher - than - average concentrations of water in lunar volcanic
deposits near the Moon's equator, where background water in the soil is scarce.
Not exact matches
Water on the
moon, if it exists at all, is probably confined to frozen
deposits in a few shadowed craters
near its poles.
Our
moon was made by the Big Splash, an impact that we thought left iron
deposits near Earth's crust.
The earlier evidence for water on the
moon hinted only at small
deposits near the poles, probably left there by the impact of icy meteorites.