India's Chandrayaan-I who is on Moon mission has detected evidence of water across the Moon surface, Indian scientists announced this great news which will make every Indian to feel proud.
It has been widely believed that the moon was dry, but data from India's Chandrayaan-1 mission allegedly found clear evidence of water there, apparently concentrated at the poles and possibly formed by the solar wind.
What's more, water appears to still be forming, advancing the possibility that human life could be sustained there. Scientists hope that astronauts could one day not only drink the water but extract oxygen from it to breathe and hydrogen to use as fuel.
The man who led the mission, Dr Mylswamy Annadurai said how pleased he was at the discovery, which significantly enhances India's position in its space race with China. "It's very satisfying," he said. "This was one of the main objectives of Chandrayaan-1, to find evidence of water on the moon."
The reports from the Indian mission were backed up by the findings of two other studies to be published in the journal Science tomorrow, showing that the water may be actively moving around, forming and reforming as particles mixed up in the dust on the surface of the moon.
Carle Pieters, of Brown University on Rhode Island, and colleagues reviewed data from India's Chandrayaan-1 mission, India's first mission to the moon and found spectrographic evidence of water. The water seems thicker closer to the poles, they reported.
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