The solar wind storm came into the spotlight shortly before the sun completed its 11-year cycle. After the second sighting of the black spot, called "coronal hole" by NASA, warnings were issued by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Solar wind storm created by black spots is expected to reach Earth.

In the study published in Nature Geoscience, it was stated that trillions of tons of water can be found scattered on the Moon's surface in very small glass spheres, which are thought to have formed when meteorites hit the Moon's surface. The research was conducted by Chinese scientists on the first soil samples brought from the Moon since the 1970s.

It was stated that the study filled some gaps in the "lunar water cycle theory", which predicts that the ice on the lunar surface evaporates with the effect of the solar winds during the daytime and returns to the surface with cooling at night.

The lunar soil examined within the scope of the research was brought to Earth by China's Chang'i-5 spacecraft, which collected soil samples from the Moon in 2020, as part of the 5th phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program.

Researchers from a number of institutions, including China's Nanjing University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined 150 particles from 50 micrometers (hair thickness) to 1 millimeter in diameter, selected from samples brought from the Moon.

Solar winds penetrating the glass beads create water. As a result of the examination, it was stated that the solar winds, which carry the hydrogen and oxygen from the Sun throughout the Solar System, can cause the formation of water when they hit these glass spheres, which are thought to have formed in ancient times.

The researchers noted that this could also be the answer to how 270 trillion kilograms of water could be found on the Moon's surface.

Hejiu Hui, a researcher at Nanjing University, said, "We found that the hydrogen from the solar wind can penetrate the glass spheres and thus create a new water reserve on the Moon. The glass spheres formed as a result of the impact can also be filled with water as they are spread over the lunar surface in the regolith and continue the water cycle on the Moon's surface. can do.” said.

Stating that it would be helpful to understand how water is stored on the Moon, Hui noted that this information could one day guide lunar astronauts to potential sources that could one day be converted into drinking water and even rocket fuel, and that the water on the Moon could become usable as a result of simply heating glass spheres.

The research revealed that the water in the glass beads is refreshed every few years.

 

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