In a major leap for India?s space programme, the Moon mapper on-board the Indian space probe made the unexpected discovery that water may still be forming on the moon surface overturning the long accepted view that lunar soil is dry.

There are strong chemical signatures of water on the moon in its high latitudes, said Carle Pieters, Principal Investigator of NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument

Chandrayaan-I, whose mission also included sniffing for water on Earth’s only natural satellite, had made the discovery before it was prematurely aborted on August 30.

Source: PTI