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Location of water deposits in the polar regions of the Moon.

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Abstract

Our Moon periodically moves through the magnetic tail of the Earth that contains terrestrial ions of hydrogen and oxygen. Reconnection inside this magnetosphere's tail reverts the ions flow back to the Earth and allows for oxygen and hydrogen transfer into the lunar surface regolith when the Moon is inside the Earth's terrestrial magnetosphere.

We discovered, using gravity aspects, this inference reveals polar deposits of potential frozen water signatures forming volumes of permafrost in the lunar subsurface. Our analysis predicts that impact cratering processes were responsible for specific pore space network that were subsequently filled with the water-ice in the polar regions of the Moon.

Identified hydrogravity strike anomalies by the novel gravity aspect approach serve as potential resource utilization sites for future landing exploration sites (e.g., Artemis objectives).