Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Exogenic origin for the volatiles sampled by the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite impact

  • K. E. Mandt,
  • O. Mousis,
  • D. Hurley,
  • A. Bouquet,
  • K. D. Retherford,
  • L. O. Magaña,
  • A. Luspay-Kuti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28289-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The water and other volatiles observed in the LCROSS impact plume contained too much nitrogen to have originated from volcanic outgassing. These volatiles, stored in the top 1-3 meters of the Cabeus permanently shaded region, were delivered by comet impacts.