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  • How did rust get on the moon, where there's no water or oxygen? (Kahvilokki, Wikimedia Commons)
    The Rusty Moon
    Walker Rhea
    In 2020, a team of American scientists reported the first remotely sensed evidence of the mineral hematite on Earth's moon. The researchers made their discovery with a NASA instrument aboard the Indian space agency's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft orbiting the moon.