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A New Study Shows The Moon's Interior Could Contain Water

Sick of your crowded neighborhood pool? A new study shows there might be quite a bit of water on a more isolated place — the moon.
The moon is pictured in this image from December 6, 2006. A new study shows the moon's interior might contain water. / ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Getty Images

The moon might be flowing with much more water than we thought, thanks to ancient volcanic deposits, a new study shows.

Using satellite data, scientists from Brown University studied layers of rock on the moon that likely formed from , called lunar pyroclastic

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