.... Extensive water ice is expected to be present in craters at the lunar poles. In March 2010, the lunar probe Chandrayaan-1 discovered at least 40 shadowed craters at the lunar north pole containing an estimated 600 million tonnes of water-ice...
...’e-5. India may startle the space community with 2019 lunar landing firsts from ISRO South Pole Chandrayaan-2. The ESA Moon Village, International Space Exploration Coordinating Group and International Lunar Decade all have...
... percent (in weight) in the impact ejecta material. Infrared spectrometers on the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard the Chandrayaan-1 mission have also provided evidence for ice at the surface of PSRs in both northern and southern polar...
... it was hidden away in permanently shaded craters near the poles. However, data gathered from both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as water in sunlight reflected from the...
...used to make rocket fuel and it is too expensive to transport water from Earth. So, when both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as water in sunlight reflected from the ...
... aims for the next decade, the country has a number of up and coming missions to achieve first, such as Chandrayaan-3, the first solar mission, Aditya-L1 and the first uncrewed flight under the Gaganyaan Programme. The...