India’s Chandrayaan-1 and NASA join hands to search for water on the moon

October 9th, 2009 Huntington (West Virginia, US), - A NASA spacecraft bombed the South Pole of the Moon on Friday in the hope of discovering water on the lunar surface. NASA's "L-CROSS" mission involved the successful use of an unmanned rocket and a satellite.

September 26th, 2009 DHAKA - Applauding India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and the discovery of water on the moon, a Dhaka daily has said the find has significantly widened the scope for space research. But The Daily Star newspaper, in an editorial Saturday, cautioned against rivalry among those engaged in research and exploration on the moon.

September 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's own Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on board the country's maiden lunar craft had discovered water on the moon, a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA's probe that was also aboard Chandrayaan-1, India's top space scientist G. Madhavan Nair said here Friday.

September 24th, 2009 CHENNAI - The sensational discovery of water molecules on the lunar surface by an instrument owned by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and carried by India's Chandrayaan-1 has been termed by scientists as a "very precious find". "Moon water is more precious than gold," an Indian space scientist told IANS, declining to be named.

September 24th, 2009 BANGALORE/CHENNAI - India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-1 found evidence of water on the surface of the moon, a top American scientist confirmed Thursday. "The moon has distinct signatures of water.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Data from Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar mission, has revealed the presence of large quantities of water on the surface of the Moon, a discovery that is a significant boost for India in its space race against China. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) lost control of Chandrayaan-1 last month, and aborted the mission ahead of schedule, but not before M3 and the other instruments had beamed data back to Earth.

September 24th, 2009 CHENNAI - India's first lunar mission is perhaps the only space project that has raised many eyebrows. But the sensational finding of water on moon has vindicated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials' faith in the Rs.386-crore mission.

September 24th, 2009 BANGALORE - The "baby" had done its job by finding water on the moon, India's ace space scientist and project director of the country's maiden lunar mission M. Annadurai said here Thursday.

September 24th, 2009 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 the NASA payload on Chandrayaan-1 has traced water.

September 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan has been successful in finding traces of water on the lunar surface, the US space agency NASA said here Thursday, and thanked the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the partnership. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) official said that traces of water and hydroxyl, a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, was also found in the lunar soil.

September 23rd, 2009 CHENNAI - Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said he can't confirm the presence of water on the moon.

September 23rd, 2009 CHENNAI - The American space agency NASA is expected to announce Thursday major findings of its moon mineralogy matter that went on board India's Chandrayaan-1. The announcement has been kept under wraps, but it is speculated it will be about the presence of water or ice on the moon.

September 2nd, 2009 PANAJI - Chandrayaan's moon mineralogy mapper has confirmed the magma ocean hypothesis, meaning that the moon was once completely molten, a senior scientist said Wednesday. "It proves beyond doubt the magma ocean hypothesis.

September 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) might have prematurely terminated the country's first moon exploration mission after it lost radio contact with Chandrayaan-1 over the weekend, but the probe is already said to have yielded a treasure trove of useful data. This suggestion comes from Carle Pieters, a planetary geologist at Brown University in Rhode Island, the principal investigator of the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a NASA instrument on Chandrayaan-1.

August 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - India's first lunarcraft Chandrayaan-1 Friday conducted a joint experiment with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the US's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to trace presence of ice in a dark crater near the North Pole of the moon, the Indian space agency said. "The unique bi-static experiment was carried out jointly when Chandrayaan and Orbiter came closer while orbiting over the lunar North Pole where the permanently shadowed crater is located," the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here.