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Comets may have delivered water on Moon

London, November 21 (ANI): Evidence from NASA’s LCROSS mission has suggested that water found in the lunar impact recently was delivered by comets rather than forming on the surface through an interaction with the solar wind.

In October, the mission crashed two impactors – a spent rocket stage and a few minutes later, the LCROSS spacecraft [...]

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There is plenty of water on the moon, NASA confirms (Repeating for all needing)

Washington, Nov 14 (IANS) There is indeed water on the moon – as first indicated by India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan – and plenty of it, US space scientists said on the basis of impacts made by a new satellite.

‘Indeed yes, we found water,’ Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for US space agency NASA’s Lunar [...]

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There is plenty of water on the moon, NASA confirms

Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) There is indeed water on the moon – as first indicated by India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan – and plenty of it, US space scientists said Friday on the basis of impacts made by a new satellite.

‘Indeed yes, we found water,’ Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for US space agency NASA’s [...]

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First image of the lunar plume released

London, Oct 18 (ANI): A week after NASA had hit the moon as part of its LCROSS mission, the first image of the lunar material that erupted as a result has been released.

The image was taken by a spacecraft trailing behind the impactor, whose bird’s-eye view allowed it to look at the material, which had [...]

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