The major presence of water detected on the Moon is in

A) the puffs of steam seen coming from some still active lunar volcanoes.
B) the floors of deep craters in the polar regions, as ice deposits that never thaw.
C) faint clouds of ice in the thin lunar atmosphere.
D) the flows of mud seen on the walls of some craters.
E) the mare.


B

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A.

They are equal and opposite in direction.

B.
They are equal and have the same direction.

C.
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D.
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E.
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