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Scientists Found Something on the Moon That Doesn’t Make Sense

Fexl | November 10, 2026



For half a century, the scientific consensus was clear: the Moon was a bone-dry desert, stripped of its moisture by billions of years of solar radiation. The Apollo samples backed this up perfectly. But recent in-situ measurements from China’s Chang’e-5 and Chang’e-6 missions have completely shattered that model. The lunar far side isn’t just holding ancient ice—it is actively manufacturing a massive, double-layered water cycle right beneath the dust.

This shift from a dead world to a renewable resource fundamentally rewrites the economics of deep space exploration. With Chang’e-7 preparing to send a specialized “hopper” probe into the permanent, freezing shadows of the Shackleton crater, space agencies are no longer just looking for water. They are preparing to extract it.

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References:
Nature Astronomy: Widespread distribution of water on the lunar surface illuminated by the Sun
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01222-x

Nature Astronomy: Lunar surface and subsurface water revealed by Chang’e-6
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395723421_Lunar_surface_and_subsurface_water_revealed_by_Chang’e-6

Macquarie University The Lighthouse: China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done
https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/2026/august-2026/china-is-launching-a-moon-mission-to-find-water-ice.-its-unlike-anything-nasa-has-done

State Council of the People’s Republic of China / Xinhua: Chang’e-6 probe data reveal water distribution on Moon
https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202509/24/content_WS68d3af2bc6d00ca5f9a0665d.htmlNature

Astronomy: Widespread distribution of water on the lunar surface illuminated by the Sun
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01222-x

Nature Astronomy: Lunar surface and subsurface water revealed by Chang’e-6
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395723421_Lunar_surface_and_subsurface_water_revealed_by_Chang’e-6

Macquarie University The Lighthouse: China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done
https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/2026/august-2026/china-is-launching-a-moon-mission-to-find-water-ice.-its-unlike-anything-nasa-has-done

State Council of the People’s Republic of China / Xinhua: Chang’e-6 probe data reveal water distribution on Moon
https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202509/24/content_WS68d3af2bc6d00ca5f9a0665d.html

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  1. @flightsimdev

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    Calling solar wind hydrogen implantation into impact generated glass unexpected ignores nearly 20 years of data starting with Alberto Saal’s 2008 volcanic glass bead study and subsequent orbital spectrometers, the video conflates two completely different things, volatile trapping in permanently shadowed regions (polar cold traps) with solar wind derived hydroxyl in sunlit regolith. One is a classic cryogenic trap, the other is in situ chemical manufacturing via impact glass. Neither is a mystery to anyone who reads actual planetary science papers, finding hydroxyl and H₂O formed by solar wind protons reacting with impact glass isn't some shocking anomaly. It's a well documented regolith chemistry driven by micro_meteoroid melting and hydrogen implantation, not a secret lunar reservoir waiting to surprise us, big title with little substance in the actual facts.

  2. @shadowlord8580

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    I wonder if something like aerojell could be used in some way in long sheets to collect the hydrogen out the solar wind to make a water collector/condenser, or something like it, then one could collect anywhere in the solar system

  3. @Ilovethebush

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    We need wicking mats with condensation tubes to lay like a blanket on the soil, to magnetically extract the bonded water from the glass particles. # as a symbol for the woven mat, with a tube —, that flows to a collection vessel 'U.'

    #—U.

  4. @Ilovethebush

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    Water is naturally attracted to gravitational centres owing to its polar nature; e.g. when it sticks to an astronaut in zero G, it is because it is magnetically bonding to the astronaut. As such, it moves to the centre of a planet, commonly called 'down' from the 'on-planet' perspective. Therefore, there will be higher concentrations (ppm) of water, deeper in the planet.

    Owing to this, all moon constructions will need to be sub-surface, like the mining town of Cober Pedy, South Australia.

  5. @Ilovethebush

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    As space dust hits a planet, it contains the genetic codes of life, the base vibrations of the bacterial symbiotic cultures that form the beginnings of zooplankton and other simple organisms.

    The genetics codes are like musical notes, the speed the space dust hits the planet, its size, shape, and spin all combine to represent a specific genetic sequence or code, like introns and exons.

  6. @oldbag3043

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    The moon was squished out of the earth by a large body passing through our solar system with a large magnetic force I figured this out a long time ago because you can see the destruction and creation of it when you study the solar system and it's moons I was alerted to this by a young girl who showed me an experiment with a bubble and a ruler many years ago and she was right

  7. @Ilovethebush

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    Heat causes water to move to colder areas. The myth is that the water 'evaporates.' In reality, the H20 molecules simply move to a more suitable environment. Water is sticky due to Cohesion. As such the 'evaporating' water forms into a slip-stream and moves from the tidally locked dry surface of the moon, to the 'dark-side' or cold-side of the moon, where there is almost NIL evaporation.

  8. @thedarkmoon2341

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    There is no heat directly from the Sun on the lunar surface The Suns far UV emissions interacting with components of the regolith produce localised heat but it does not penetrate far and is only a 'skin' effect.

  9. @Zxcvbmm123

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    > If I tell you that I have seen some YouTube channels in which bridges are visible on the Moon and glaciers like Antarctica are visible there, what would be your opinion and reaction on that? Believe me.

  10. @AdamAdams-l2v

    November 10, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    If the far side has had 4 billion years of direct exposure to solar radiation , the near side would have got the same , even though tidaly locked .
    Edit ; The water issue , got answered at the half way mark .
    As for what happens , to us , for removing regolith is another matter – First Nations people's world wide , have "storys / myths" related to this act of theft from both the Moon and Mars .
    Any habitat (s) constructed on the Moon , will result in permenant changes to that population , genetically , due to the lower gravity and their ability to grow food , using the lunar regalith and how well it grows plants , otherwise , Hydroponics , will have to be used – bonus = more growing space – trailing or climbing plants will have to be trained to grow vertically, with any fruit cradled , to maturity to avoid damage to the rest of the plant & crop on it . Fish , could be used to help keep the water clean & nourish the plants – so also humans waste , plus the additional gas generated which could be made into other products needed by the Lunar Colony . 😊.

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