Water Released from Moon During Meteor Showers: Animations
- Visualizations by:
- Brian Monroe
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Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet debris strikes the moon it vaporizes on impact, creating a shock wave in the lunar soil. For a sufficiently large impactor, this shock wave can breach the soil’s dry upper layer and release water molecules from a hydrated layer below. The LADEE spacecraft detects these water molecules as they enter the tenuous lunar atmosphere.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Animators
- Brian Monroe (USRA) [Lead]
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle)
Scientists
- Dana Hurley (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
- Mehdi Benna (UMBC)
- Richard Elphic (NASA/ARC)
Art director
- Michael Lentz (KBRwyle)
Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle)
Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET)
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