Astronomers of the University of Curtin in Australia found that the sun is a likely source of water on earth and other solar system objects. The results of scientific work suggest that astronauts can receive water from asteroids and lunar breeds in the case of a manned landing on the moon. This is reported in the article published in the Nature Astronomy magazine.
Researchers found that the solar wind, consisting of charged particles (mainly hydrogen ions), creates water on the surface of the dust in the asteroids, which crashed into the ground in the first days of the existence of the solar system. Initially, it was assumed that water fell to Earth due to astrosidam classes C (dark carbon objects), but the isotope analysis demonstrated the existence of another unaccounted source.
Scientists analyzed the samples of an asteroid class with Iokava, which were collected by the Japanese Space Probe “Hayabus” and brought to Earth in 2010. It turned out that dusting on an asteroid contains water molecules, which generally corresponds to 20 liters on each cubic meter of the breed. According to researchers, such a process of chemical weathelation can occur not only on asteroids, but also on larger cosmic bodies, including the moon.