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Confirmed: Water Ice on the Moon
https://www.neatorama.com/

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That's pretty amazing. It's really weird to think that the moon, with no air and nothing to protect the surface from the blazing Sun, can have ice, let alone ice on the surface! But they do have protection: the Moon itself.
Article from the first link:
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/confirmed-water-ice-on-the-moon

Original paper:
Direct evidence of surface exposed water ice in the lunar polar regions
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08/14/1802345115
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Shuai Li, Paul G. Lucey, Ralph E. Milliken, Paul O. Hayne, Elizabeth Fisher, Jean-Pierre Williams, Dana M. Hurley, and Richard C. Elphic
PNAS August 20, 2018. 201802345; published ahead of print August 20, 2018.
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