Astronomy
A Giant leap In Moon mission
Chandrayaan-1 has achieved a new milestone as it discovered 600 million metric tons ice on the Moon's North Pole.
The announcement was made at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Congress , organised by Houston- based Lunar and Planetary Institute. The discovery was made by a NASA payload on board Chandrayaan-1 called Mini - Sar a light weight intrument that weighs 10 Kg . It found more than 40 small craters with water ice , the size of craters ranging between one and nine miles in Moon.
Scientists say that the discovery of water ice in Moon is important as it can serve as as a natural resource on future missions . The ice can be melted into drinking water or separated into its component of oxygen and hydrogen to provide breathing air and and rocked fuelfor launching interplanetary missions from Moon.
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Water Everywhere On Mars And Moon
Yes water, water is everywhere on Moon and Mars.......Ice deposits at least 6 feet can be found in some small craters on the Moon it was reported by researchers on 12 th April 2010 as the studies showed evidence of water on Moon and Mars . According to...
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Does Moon Water Comes In Three Flavours ?
There has been surprise discovery of water in Moon . Now the scientists are saying that the water present in Moon's surface comes in three flavours ! According to the findings of Chandrayaan -1 , NASA's Mini-SAR team has found 40 craters which...
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Water Molecules On Lunar Surface
NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Water molecules are greater than predicted , but still relatively small. Hydroxyl, a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, also was found in the...
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Water Ice On The Moon
Image: ISRO With the help of ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA's Mini-RF Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument it carried onboard, more than 40 craters have been detected on the Moon to contain water ice. These craters are small and...
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Nasa Finds Large Amount Of Hydrogen On Moon.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [LRO] spacecraft has recently discovered more hydrogen on Moon 's pole-facing slopes. The recent discovery of hydrogen-bearing molecules, possibly including water, on the moon has made explorers excited because...
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