A team of NASA scientists have announced that the data from the mini-SAR instrument aboard the Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe has revealed large quantities of frozen water in at least 40 major craters at the Moon's north pole - an amount estimated at ~600 million tons.
If true, then this would be the find of the millenium, and could become an inflection point for humanity in helping us to establish a foothold to expand our presence to the rest of the solar system. Chandrayaan may be the most valuable space mission ever done by Man.
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to be fair, the water sensing equipment was nasa's and it was not the first time that they had suspected that the moon had water. that theory has been around for decades.
Granted that NASA had suspected water on the Moon for decades.
But a closer look at ancient Indian science would help.
Moon being the ruler of 'Kataka Raasi' or Cancer(the Water Sign), Indian astrology, ayurveda, yoga are replete with reference to the Moon being the ruler of water bodies, whether it is the earth's water sources, or even the water inside the human body, including the fluid inside the human brain.
So if you can't find water on the Moon, I don't know where else one could find it, barring the Earth ofcourse.
San will like this:
discovermagazine.com/web/germanvillage
The previous water find was adsorbed surface-film water (aka. "molecular water") by NASA's Moon Minerology Mapper instrument aboard Chandrayaan-1.
This latest find is from NASA's mini-SAR instrument also aboard Chandrayaan-1. We're talking about the discovery of hundreds of millions of tons of what is essentially bulk ice (ie. water in pure concentrated form)
This is the kind of water that we would be able to more easily harvest, in order to sustain permanent lunar settlements, which could themselves be used to explore the rest of the solar system.
>>>"Chandrayaan may be the most valuable space mission ever done by Man."
The Spanish may have said the same thing about Colombus' trip to the 'new world'.
Unfortunately that 'most valuable mission' turned out to be highly costly for the 'new world'.
Hope such won't be the case this time.
What happened to all the cheese?
san, the find was by design, not accident. back in 2006 or so, nasa announced that it would crash a probe at very high velocity in the area where they suspected that there was water.
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