the dark regions that cover the moon's lowlands. But those volcanoes also belched out water vapor. As it touched the frigid moon, the water vapor would have frozen solid, forming a layer of ice a ...

Hayne is a coauthor on a new study published this month in The Planetary Science Journal about potential sources of water on the moon. When these lunar volcanoes erupted, it's also likely they ...

While those methods likely contributed some water to the Moon, a significant portion may have been ejected and sequestered by volcanoes erupting between 2 and 4 billion years ago. “The uncertainties ...

One key resource is water, and finding a convenient ... found that there could be thick sheets of ice on the moon, created by ancient volcanoes. Though the moon is volcanically inactive today ...

From these models they determined that the ancient Moon volcanoes likely gave out enormous amounts of carbon monoxide and water vapour, which potentially created thin layers of atmosphere that ...

Water hidden on the moon for eons could be utilised as a resource for a future moon base (Credits: Getty) The moon could hold enough water under its surface to meet the needs of a moonbase and to ...