MOON-NAIR 2

MOON-NAIR 2

Nair said that he disagrees with the "media version that
Chandrayaan-I crashed or failed. Earlier, I had said the
mission was a 95 per cent success. Now I say it is 110 per
cent success."

Chandrayaan-I mission launched in October last year was
aborted prematurely last month ending its two year life span.

Nair said "while the moon impact probe landed, it took
nearly 25 minutes. It took some pictures that indicated these
water molecules. Another instrument HYS1 to map minerals also
helped NASA'S M3 in finding water."

On whether water can be extracted from the moon surface,
Nair said, "Yes, if we have novel techniques but from one
tonne of soil we may get only half a litre of water and that
is a real challenge."

ISRO Principal Scientist J N Goswami said that the MIP
had picked up strong signals of water particles towards polar
region from 70 degree latitude to 80 degree latitudes.

The scientists, he said, had indications of the finding
"way back in June" but waited all these days to make it public
as they wanted the findings of such a global significance to
come out in a scientific journal first.

"The volume of data collected from Chandrayaan-1 is
phenomenal. Our computers in ISRO and NASA are filled up with
information. It may take six months to three years to analyse
it," he said. MORE AJ
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