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...spite of their heated arguments about the moon's origin, history and composition, lunar scientists usually agree on one point; that the moon is a bleak, waterless place, a million times dryer, as one researcher put it, than the Gobi Desert. That idea was challenged last week, as two Rice University scientists disclosed that they had detected the first evidence of water on the moon...
Even more intriguing, the greatest flow of gases was detected last March 7, when the seismometers left on the moon were registering strong rumblings in the lunar interior. Convinced that the timing of the seismic activity and ion flows was more than coincidental, Freeman concluded that water may well have burst forth from the moon in geyser-like eruptions, an event that would have been recorded by the seismometers...
...water is in fact locked inside the moon, its presence may be confirmed by electronic surveying gear aboard next year's Apollo 17 flight. Such water could have significance for future lunar explorers and colonizers, who would be relieved of the considerable problem of bringing their supply all the way from earth...
Harvard researcher Dr. John A. Wood, director of the Mineralogy and Petrology Study Group at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, was one of 24 American Scientists to recieve lunar surface material retrieved by the Russian Luna 16 mission...
...associate of the Harvard Observatory, Wood got a whopping 50 milligrams of moon rock for study and testing in a Russian-American exchange on July 13. Soviet scientists were given material collected by Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts in return for their lunar samples...