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Ep. 686: Ice In The Shadows

Astronomy Cast

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The Mechanism That Got All of This Water Into These Craters

Water gets to the moon via an impact. Now it also doesn't stay liquid water. It ends up in the moon's exosphere somehow. And there is the ability for the water to random walk itself into these permanently shadowed regions and then be like, no, son. I stay here.

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