Last year Chandrayaan-1 had confirmed the presence of large quantities of water on the moon and now according to ISRO they detected over 40 small ice-filled craters in the Moon’s North Pole using information obtained by a Nasa instrument on board the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
A release from Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said that the analysis of data obtained by the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) onboard Chandrayaan-1 has provided evidence for the presence of ice deposits near the moon's North Pole. The Mini-SAR instrument found more than 40 small craters (2-15 km in diameter) with sub-surface water ice located at their base. The interior of these craters is in permanent sun shadow.
Prof Paul Spudis, principal investigator of the Mini-SAR experiment said, “The new discoveries by Chandrayaan-1 and other lunar missions show that the moon is an even more interesting and attractive scientific, exploration and operational destination than people had previously thought.” The Mini-SAR mapped the moon's permanently shadowed polar craters that are not visible from Earth. The radar uses the polarisation properties of reflected radio waves to characterise surface properties.
Results from the mapping showed deposits having radar characteristics similar to ice. The emerging picture from the multiple measurements and resulting data of the instruments, Moon Mineralogy Mapper and Mini-SAR on Chandrayaan-1 and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), indicates that water creation, migration, deposition and retention are occurring on the moon.
The Mini-SAR's findings have just been published in the journal “Geophysical Research Letters” authored by scientists from 13 agencies from US and India, including Prof J N Goswami, Principal Scientist, Chandrayaan-1 from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and Dr M Chakrabarty of Applications Centre, Ahmedabad.
Mini-SAR and Moon Mineralogy Mapper are two of the 11 instruments carried on Chandrayaan-1, which was launched on October 22, 2008, and began orbiting the moon on November 8, 2008.
Last month UFO-Blogger reported that the lake look-alike craters was spotted over Moon by HDTV Cameras of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
First vapour,then water, now ice..What Next ? Life on Moon....
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A release from Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said that the analysis of data obtained by the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) onboard Chandrayaan-1 has provided evidence for the presence of ice deposits near the moon's North Pole. The Mini-SAR instrument found more than 40 small craters (2-15 km in diameter) with sub-surface water ice located at their base. The interior of these craters is in permanent sun shadow.
Prof Paul Spudis, principal investigator of the Mini-SAR experiment said, “The new discoveries by Chandrayaan-1 and other lunar missions show that the moon is an even more interesting and attractive scientific, exploration and operational destination than people had previously thought.” The Mini-SAR mapped the moon's permanently shadowed polar craters that are not visible from Earth. The radar uses the polarisation properties of reflected radio waves to characterise surface properties.
Results from the mapping showed deposits having radar characteristics similar to ice. The emerging picture from the multiple measurements and resulting data of the instruments, Moon Mineralogy Mapper and Mini-SAR on Chandrayaan-1 and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), indicates that water creation, migration, deposition and retention are occurring on the moon.
The Mini-SAR's findings have just been published in the journal “Geophysical Research Letters” authored by scientists from 13 agencies from US and India, including Prof J N Goswami, Principal Scientist, Chandrayaan-1 from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and Dr M Chakrabarty of Applications Centre, Ahmedabad.
Mini-SAR and Moon Mineralogy Mapper are two of the 11 instruments carried on Chandrayaan-1, which was launched on October 22, 2008, and began orbiting the moon on November 8, 2008.
Last month UFO-Blogger reported that the lake look-alike craters was spotted over Moon by HDTV Cameras of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
First vapour,then water, now ice..What Next ? Life on Moon....
Other Stories :
Indian Chandrayaan 1 finds iron on moon, February 07, 2009
Indian Moon Mission Pictures Show Triangular Pyramid Anomaly,16th, January,2009
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