Moon probe's before death gasp: Water

Mankind's 40 year search for water on the moon has finally ended, and India's lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 helped achieve the breakthrough.

In back-to-back pronouncements in Bengaluru and Washington DC on Thursday, both the Indian Space Research Organisation and America's Nasa said the US moon mineralogy mapper, one of the 11 instruments on board Chandrayaan-1, found water on earth's only natural satellite.

Over the past four decades, space agencies have sent several probes, a dozen American astronauts have walked on the moon, but it was not until Chandrayaan-1 that the presence of water was finally confirmed.

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