22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... has finally been found by a team of scientists in Hawaii. The discovery has been made by data acquired by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 mission launched in 2008. In the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... by the ‘roaring twenties’ of NewSpace? The distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right) as viewed by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter. The water ice, now also...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... a water ice concentration of several 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...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... vehicles. The Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 mission carried NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which took this three-colour composite image of the side of the moon that faces Earth. Blue shows the signature of water, green shows...
