Sorry Moon. Our bad.
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The moon probably shouldn’t have rust. Rust, iron oxide, both naturally need oxygen oxygen and water, so you think of the moon – a celestial body that is mostly dry and completely devoid of oxygen oxygen – with no corrosion. It turns out he does. And why scientists are trying to figure it out.
Took the data of a new study published in Science Advances Chandrayaan-1 orbit of the Indian Space Research Organization And found that the lunar poles have a different composition compared to other areas of the moon. Upon closer inspection, the study’s lead author, Shuai Li, discovered hematite, a common iron oxide – rust, essentially.
He reached out to scientists and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to confirm the discovery.
“Initially, I didn’t believe it completely. It shouldn’t be based on the conditions on the moon,” said JPL scientist Abigail Fremen, who contacted the scientist. “But when we find water on the moon, people are speculating that if we realize that if water reacts with rocks, we may have a larger number of minerals than we realize.”
So why does corrosion currently exist on the moon? There are many factors, but the earth is partial. Is guilty.
To begin with, there is a small amount of water on the moon. Ice water exists in the lunar crater, but that water exists on the far side of the moon, from where the corrosion occurred. The current theory is that dust particles that often come to the moon help to release water molecules, mixing water molecules with iron on the surface.
Then there is the oxygen part. That is where the earth comes from.
Thanks to the fact that it is in the closest position to the Earth, the Moon plays the role of a host to find the amount of oxygen by traveling all the way from the Earth’s atmosphere to the Moon. Lee discovered that the side of the moon that faces the earth has more rust than the parts that face the earth.
He believes this process has been going on on the moon for billions of years. Moon, please accept our most sincere apology for the rust.
