Open AccessMoon May Hold Billions of Tons of Subterranean Ice at Its Poles
Author(s) -
Jerald Pinson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo151889
Subject(s) - astrobiology , geology , earth science , geochemistry , physics
By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon’s impact history, scientists estimate that the lunar poles may harbor billions of metric tons of subsurface ice.