Zopag News Network Published on fri 25th Sep 2009 13:36:41 Bangalore, September 25: The presence of water on lunar surface was detected by India's own Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on Chandrayaan-I , a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA which also had an instrument onboard the craft, ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said here on Friday. TOP NEWS STORY OF THE DAY – 25 th Sep 2009 India's own technology detected water on Moon: ISRO

By establishing the presence of water signatures on moon, the country's maiden lunar mission made a "path- breaking" and "real discovery", Nair said at a press conference here. The MIP while descending from Chandrayaan-I to moon, picked up strong signals of water particles, he said. India's own technology detected water on Moon: ISRO

"However, the signatures of waters are not in the form of sea, lake or even as a puddle or not even a drop. You cannot pick it up just like that," he said. "It is embedded on the surface in the minerals and rocks and we have clear indication that the hydroxil (OH) as water molecules are present on the surface, may be at least for a few millimetres," he said. India's own technology detected water on Moon: ISRO

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