Researchers estimate that the moon’s poles could contain about as much water as Lake Huron. A UAF team has been studying how some of that water could have come from Earth's upper atmosphere.
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are studying water on the moon — it’s origins, where it’s located and how much may be there. The water could be valuable to development of a moon base.
Kletetschka said his group studied “how the water would get from the earth to the moon, using this periodic passage of the moon through this magnetic tail, and how much water would be able to be transferred.”on the Planetary Society website, lunar missions have confirmed the presence of water, most prominently as ice in sun-shaded craters at the moon’s poles.
Researchers estimate that the moon’s poles could contain 840 cubic miles of water — about as much as Lake Huron, the Earth’s eighth largest lake.