Meteorite remnants on moon may reveal water


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BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): Chinese scientists have found remnants of meteorites on the far side of the moon that might reveal a major source of water.

A group of researchers at the State Key Laboratory of Space Weather - which is operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' National Space Science Center - said it had recently identified some "glassy materials" inside a two-meter crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon as remnants of a piece of carbonaceous chondrite that was not entirely vaporised when it struck the lunar surface.

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