Open AccessInterior Water Not Ruled Out for Our Moon, Lab Tests Suggest
Author(s) -
Amy McDermott
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2015eo042355
Subject(s) - magma , astrobiology , geology , surface (topology) , petrology , geochemistry , physics , volcano , geometry , mathematics
The experiments mimicked cooling of magma at the lunar surface. They found that any water in interior molten rock might have escaped so fast at the surface that none was left to be measured.