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Hour-scale Variations of Water Molecules in the Lunar Soil Revealed by Chang’e-6 In Situ Observations

  • Authors: Siyue Chi, Xiaohui Fu, Jiang Zhang, Huizi Wang, Bradley L. Jolliff, Chengxiang Yin, Jin Li, Jinhang Li, Bo Li, Zhongchen Wu

Siyue Chi et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 997 .

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Type Ⅱ spectra and the potential host minerals of water (OH/H2O). The continuum-removed SSAs of Target-A D23 and Target-C D21 are shown as the red solid lines. According to the proton (H+) implantation experiments in the laboratory, new multiple absorption peaks occur in both the terrestrial plagioclase (dashed lines) and pyroxene (dotted lines; H. Tang et al. 2021). The gray area also corresponds to the peak centers of irradiated plagioclase, which varied with temperatures (20℃–100℃, turns to shorter wavelengths; X. Zeng et al. 2021). Target-C D21 was estimated with 33 ppm water content, so the spectral features are perhaps still influenced by a few adsorbed water molecules (H2O) and even some adsorbed hydroxyl (OH) on the solid surface of lunar mineral grains. When the water content further decreased to 26 ppm in Target-A D23, its spectral features may better represent the OH groups within lunar mineral crystal lattices.

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