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| Moon water traces finding by Chandr |
| Moon water traces finding by Chandrayaan-1 path-breaking: ISRO
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| INDIA
, 24-September-2009
3:57:22 AM |
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Describing as "path-breaking" the evidence of water on Moon by India's Chandrayaan-1 mission, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Thursday that no lunar odyssey so far had given a "positive" conclusion.
"There is confirmation of traces of water. It is a path-breaking event as far as Chandrayaan-1 mission is concerned. It is very very significant. So far, no mission has confirmed the presence of water positively," Nair revealed.
One of the major instruments that gave the data was Moon Mineralogy Mapper of NASA, which was one of the payloads on board India's maiden Moon mission supplemented by hyper-spectral imager and moon impact probe of Indian Space Research Organisation.
The data analysis was done by scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US and Physical Research Laboratory and Space Application Centre, both headquartered in Ahmedabad, he said
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