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Old 05-November-2007, 05:15 PM
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As we know the nafta, cooking gas, and other gasses are present in the core of the earth, so what would be the possibility that which sort of gas may be found in the core of moon, and did the apollo mission undertake such studies during its sojourn at moon? Or this type of search is pending yet.
If by "cooking gas" you mean methane or propane, they come from fairly close to the surface of Earth, and result mainly from dynamic processes that are absent on the Moon. I have no idea whay you mean by "nafta". Naptha? It's a petrolium derivative but not a gas.

The Moon has a lot of Oxygen, chemically bound in its surface rocks. Heluim-3 isotopes might be present in relatvely small amounts. Almost everything else is metals and silicates. Not much carbon to speak of, so no methane or burnable gasses, and definitely no petrolium.
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