Dry Again: New Analysis of Apollo Moon Rocks Points to a Largely Waterless Lunar Interior

Scientific American for August 5, 2010 reported on a lack of water on the moon.

Now a new study, published online August 5 in href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1192606">Science, pushes back against the hydrated-moon hypothesis. Zachary Sharp, a geochemist at the University of New Mexico, and his colleagues measured the chemical composition of several Apollo samples and found that the chlorine content of the lunar rocks and soils implied that the moon's interior was largely bereft of water, as originally suspected.

A ScienceNOW article is here.
A Discover Blogs article is here.