India’s lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon

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    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t…/space/article6846639.ece



    Jeremy Page
    Times Online
    September 24, 2009



    Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after Indias first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface.


    Data from Chandrayaan-1 also suggests that water is still being formed on the Moon. Scientists said the breakthrough to be announced by Nasa at a press conference today would change the face of lunar exploration.


    The discovery is a significant boost for India in its space race against China. Dr Mylswamy Annadurai, the missions project director at the Indian Space Research Organisation in Bangalore, said: Its very satisfying.


    The search for water was one of the missions main objectives, but it was a surprise nonetheless, scientists said.The unmanned craft was equipped with Nasas Moon Mineralogy Mapper, designed specifically to search for water by picking up the electromagnetic radiation emitted by minerals. The M3 also made the unexpected discovery that water may still be forming on the surface of the Moon, according to scientists familiar with the mission.


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    Maybe at some point water will be sold on a station near the Earth's moon in Sol. :)


    I hadn't previously thought much about what if any space program India might have. Makes me wonder how many countries have space programs.

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    Makes me wonder how many countries have space programs.


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    humans need to invest more in scientific research such as Space Programs, instead of wasting it on fuckin weapons!



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    It is an interesting topic really. The findings point to ice deposits all over the surface of the moon - namely concentrated in the polar regions. Luna is still drier than a desert, but it's still quite the exciting find. There is speculation that NASA also discovered this during the Apollo program decades ago, but failed to realize that traces of water in the samples were from the moon itself and not contaminants from Earth. What space exploration turns up never ceases to amaze. I agree by the way, Spiky, but sadly enough even the Space Race itself was funded to pursue weapon systems, popularity and support from the public, and to assert geopolitical clout. That more pure, scientific drive for discovery seems strangely absent from too many cultures around the world. Maybe one day that will change, but for now most people seem to only care when there are practical, immediate applications for a discovery. :\


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