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Water found on Moon : Chandrayaan did it

Nasa has confirmed that Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon’s north pole and there lot of water out there but it is mixed with other compunds found in Moon’s Environment.

Image of Water on Moon

Image of Water on Moon

As they State :

NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it’s estimated there could be at least 1.3 trillion pounds (600 million metric tons) of water ice.

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Posted on 2nd March 2010 by Ashish Mohta , An analyst who writes about undicscovered,unknown and untalked topics for people who want to to know more about India and Indians. All posts by Ashish Mohta | Connect with me @Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook | Stumble

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