The inside of the moon might not be all wet after all. A new study suggests that, contrary to recent work, the lunar interior is as bone-dry as scientists thought 40 years ago, when NASA astronauts lugged home the first moon rocks.
Astronaut Charles Duke collected moon rocks during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
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