Water was detected in moon:Chandrayan

Water was detected in moon:Chandrayan

Indian scientists rejoice as Chandrayaan-1 traces water on moon.

NEW DELHI: As news trickled out about Indian maiden lunar mission tracing water molecules on the moon's Surface, scientists rejoiced at the
Discovery and hope that it will pave the way for growing vegetation in the earth's
Natural satellite in future."I am really very happy to know that the NASA payload on Chandrayaan-1 has traced water. If it is true then it will pave the way for growing vegetation in moon surface in five or 10 years from now," renowned scientist Y S Rajan said."Even if there is no water in its complete H20 format, still it's a great feat. It will help make human venturing to moon a more enriching experience. Those going to moon can combine the molecule and get water."They can also break it and get oxygen which is a major problem for scientists in space," said Rajan, who has written the book India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, along with former president A P J Abdul Kalam.He said India's moon mission was a "great success" that proved ISRO's capability and efficiency in managing key space projects. "We have received loads of data from moon via our mission. It has certainly enriched the global scientific community.""The moon has distinct signatures of water," top American scientist Carle Pieters confirmed on Thursday."The evidence of water molecules on the surface of the moon was found by the moon mineralogy mapper (M3) of the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on board Chandrayaan-1," M3 principal investigator Pieters said in a paper published in the journal Science.Amitabha Ghosh, space scientist at NASA, said: "This is a very, very important finding... If somehow water was found on the moon, you could use that water right out there. You could extract it.""Right now, we don't know what temperature it is, and whether there is a cost effective way of extracting it," he added. Mila Mitra, a scientist formerly associated with NASA said: "This is truly significant because it will help find any trace of life on moon."
"Now you will see more money being invested in moon missions. There might be manned moon missions. Now you will see more emphasis on such endeavours," she added.
S Chandrasekaran, another leading scientist, said: "Yes, we are very happy. I was not part of the mission so cannot give technical details but yes, the discovery is very significant. It is great and very important."
Last year, former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan had told the news agency: "For me personally, if Chandrayaan-1 manages to find evidence of water on the moon, then that would be the biggest achievement."Chandrayaan-1 was India's first unmanned lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008, and operated until August 2009. The spacecraft carried five Indian instruments and six from abroad, including M3 and another from NASA, three from the EuropeaSpace Agency (ESA), and one from Bulgaria.

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Chandrayan an amazing success, not a failure: NASA astronaut

NASA astronaut Edward Michael Fincke said on Friday that the Indian moon mission 'Chandrayan' was not a failure, but an "amazing success".
"There is a lot of speculation about the mission being failed. On the contrary, it was a success with 95 per cent of its objectives achieved," Fincke, a veteran of two missions in the International Space Station ISS), told reporters in Guwahati.
"This not the official view but my own perspective as an astronaut and the fact that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was able to put a satellite to orbit the moon and plant the Indian Flag on the surface of the moon is indeed amazing," said Fincke, married to NASA engineer Renita Saikia whose parents hail from Assam. 
The NASA astronaut, currently on a 11-day visit to the North East, interacted with nearly five thousand students and professors of schools, colleges, universities and the local IIT.

Chandrayaan - I finds traces of water on moon 

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Chandrayaan-1 probe had found traces of water across the surface of large parts of the moon, challenging the long-held view that the earth’s natural satellite is bone dry.
The spacecraft also found indications that water is being produced in the lunar soil through interactions with charged particles streaming out from the sun. 
This major discovery is a vindication of the Chandryaan-1 mission, which encountered many problems and finally ended abruptly last month. 
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a U.S.-supplied instrument that flew on the Chandrayaan-1, examined the intensity of different colours of sunlight bouncing off the lunar surface. 
In a paper being published online this week by Science, American and Indian scientists report that the instrument found a distinctive signature of water and hydroxyl emanating from the moon. (A water molecule is made up of one oxygen atom linked to two hydrogen atoms, while hydroxyl has the oxygen atom attached to just one hydrogen atom.) 
The M3 discovered the signature of water and hydroxyl on the surface soil and rocks at many diverse places in sunlit regions of the moon. The signature was stronger at the higher latitudes. Two U.S. space missions, Cassini and the Deep Impact spacecraft, had provided supporting evidence. 
“We've made a very important step with this discovery,” said Carle Pieters of Brown University in the U.S., principal investigator for the M3. But “when we say ‘water on the moon,’ we are not talking about lakes, oceans or even puddles. Water on the moon means molecules of water and hydroxyl that interact with molecules of rock and dust specifically in the top millimeters of the moon's surface,” she cautioned in a press release issued by the university. 
What was detected was water molecules present in extremely minute quantities on the surface soil and rocks, noted J.N. Goswami, director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad and principal scientist for the Chandrayaan-1. He estimated that less than a teaspoon of water could be squeezed out from several kg of lunar soil. 
The widespread distribution of water seen by M3 was “a complete surprise,” said Lawrence Taylor of the University of Tennessee in the U.S., one of the authors of the paper. Scientists have begun finding signs of water in some lunar minerals, he told this correspondent.

Moon water traces finding by Chandrayaan-1 path-breaking: ISRO

Bangalore Describing as "path-breaking" the evidence of water on Moon by India's Chandrayaan-1 mission, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Thursday that no lunar odyssey so far had given a "positive" conclusion.
"There is confirmation of traces of water. It is a path-breaking event as far as Chandrayaan-1 mission is concerned. It is very very significant. So far, no mission has confirmed the presence of water positively," Nair revealed. 
One of the major instruments that gave the data was Moon Mineralogy Mapper of NASA, which was one of the payloads on board India's maiden Moon mission supplemented by hyper-spectral imager and moon impact probe of Indian Space Research Organisation. The data analysis was done by scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US and Physical Research Laboratory and Space Application Centre, both headquartered in Ahmedabad, he said. 
Nair said ISRO would make a formal announcement and disclose detailed analysis tomorrow following the publication of findings in a science journal and announcement by NASA scientists. 
Chandrayaan-1, launched in October last year, ended prematurely last month ahead of its two-year life span but Nair has maintained that it had achieved 95 per cent of its objectives.

Isro chief lauds Chandrayaan-I's discovery of water traces

Bangalore: Isro chairman G Madhavan Nair has described the evidence of water on moon by India's Chandrayaan-I mission as "path-breaking", adding that said no lunar odyssey so far had given a "positive" conclusion.
"There is confirmation of traces of water. It is a path-breaking event as far as Chandrayaan-1 mission is concerned. It is very significant. So far, no mission has confirmed the presence of water positively," he told PTI.
One of the major instruments that gave the data was Moon Mineralogy Mapper of Nasa, which was one of the payloads on board India's maiden moon mission supplemented by hyper-spectral imager and moon impact probe of Indian Space Research Organisation.
The data analysis was done by scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US and Physical Research Laboratory and Space Application Centre, both headquartered in Ahmedabad, he said.
Nair said Isro would make a formal announcement and disclose detailed analysis tomorrow following the publication of findings in a science journal and announcement by Nasa scientists.
Chandrayaan-I, launched in October last year, ended prematurely last month ahead of its two-year life span but Nair has maintained that it had achieved 95% of its objectives.

India Ends Chandrayaan-1 Orbiter’s Mission After Losing Contact

India’s ISRO has decided to end its Chandrayaan-1 orbiter

mission after losing contact 2 days ago.
Launched in October last year, this marks a somewhat premature end to the mission, but not before collecting a significant amount of data.
I’ll have a full retrospective up in a few days, as eyes turn to India’s next effort, an unmanned rover (in collaboration with Russia) called simply Chandrayaan-2…
Each of us  acknowledge or not many more knew, good news is that chandrayan has completed 100 Days in lunar.......

Bangalore, Jan 29: India`s maiden unmanned Moon mission Chandrayaan-I completes 100 days tomorrow and preliminary findings from data generated by on-board scientific instruments were discussed by scientists for the first time on Thursday. 
The scientists associated with Chandrayaan-1 had a day-long meeting at the ISRO Satellite Centre here on the eve of the 100th day of the launch of India`s historic lunar mission on October 22. 
"The discussions were largely technical in nature", an official of Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation said. ISRO is expected to issue a statement detailing deliberations of the closed-door meeting this week. 
Preliminary findings from the data generated by three instruments on board the lunar probe-- the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, Mini-SAR and the Imaging X-ray Spectrometer, which have already been announced, are encouraging. 
ISRO had invited scientists behind Indian payloads (scientific instruments) as well those from countries whose instruments, including from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are onboard the spacecraft for today`s conclave.Chandrayaan-1 has 11 instruments on board -- five from India, three from ESA (one of which is developed jointly with India and other with Indian contribution), one from Bulgaria and two from the US.

Chandrayaan symbolic of future`

Coimbatore, Dec 29: Highlighting the importance of team effort, Chandrayaan-1 Project Director M Annadurai on Monday said the success of the country`s maiden Moon mission was symbolic of what India could be in future.
"It (Chandrayaan-1) demonstrated how India could get along and lead a team of technical and scientific experts from internationally reputed organisations to realise an ambitious mission," he said while delivering an address at the Amrita University here. 
"Team spirit is the mantra for achieving something big," Annadurai told the students. 
"Harmonising efforts of all team members towards a common goal and realising the objective with an allotted budget and schedule demonstrated how good the team has converted a very difficult situation into a historic opportunity," he said. 
The International Lunar Exploration Working Group`s International Cooperation Award was given to ISRO Chandrayaan-1 team, for the "challenging accommodation and tests" of the most international lunar payload ever -- from 20 countries -- with the successful launch on the PSLV on Oct 22 and for the successful lunar insertion on November 8, 2008, he said. 
"If ISRO can achieve such a feat, why not other Indian teams. As a team we can do wonders. It can be accomplished as a team in all the fields, let it be in education, medicine, industry, trade, commerce, press, electronic media, sports, arts, service department and even in politics," Annadurai said. 
Interacting with engineering students in Madurai yesterday, Chandrayaan-1 Project Director  Annadurai said the ISRO has started working on Chandrayaan II. 
Plans for Chandrayaan III were also underway, he said.Chandrayaan II would land a small rover on the moon`s surface, collect and analyse samples, while Chandrayaan III envisages having a spacecraft land on the moon and bring back samples from it to the Earth. 
Noting that investment of Rs.386 crore was profitable, he said that scientists from NASA, European space agency, Japan and Bulgaria also worked with ISRO on Chandrayaan I mission. 

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