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Originally published in Science Express on 24 September 2009
Science 23 October 2009:
Vol. 326. no. 5952, pp. 531 - 532
DOI: 10.1126/science.1181471
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Perspectives

Planetary Science:

A Lunar Waterworld

Paul G. Lucey

Since the first sample return missions of the 1960s, lunar scientists have operated under the presumption that the Moon is entirely dry. Three papers in this week's issue challenge that notion: Infrared spectroscopic measurements of the lunar surface from spacecraft provide unambiguous evidence for the presence of hydroxyl (OH) or water (1–3).

Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, 1680 East West Road, POST 504, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

E-mail: lucey{at}higp.hawaii.edu

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