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Indian Moon Mission Chandrayaan-I Finds Water on Lunar Surface

Scientists have announced that country’s first moon mission Chandrayaan-I has found evidence of water across lunar surface.

According to reports, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a NASA instrument onboard Chandrayaan-I, found wavelength of reflected light that hints at a chemical bonding between hydrogen and oxygen in materials on the thin layer of upper soil.

Analysis of the data collected from Chandrayaan-I shows that the Moon Mineralogy Mapper or M3 authenticated the existence of water on moon.

The discovery puts an end to a four-decade long speculation on whether there is water on moon.

It is for the first time that scientists claim that water existed on moon about 40 years ago. They reached the conclusion after analyzing rock samples brought to earth as souvenirs by Apollo astronauts.

But they had doubts about the findings as the boxes in which the moon rocks were brought to earth had leaked contaminating the samples with air from the atmosphere.

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