India finds water on the Moon!!!!! Picture!

Tandoori time!

wtf is this true? and how has no other space agency found this before?

That's what I was thinking.

i like how they used nasa's own equipment to detect the water. i still would like more details. i guess nasa is going to make a press conference about this tomorrow? i dont see why they need nasa to give further details

Well alrighty then, when can we buy Moon bottled water!

their wall of lies and deception is starting to crumble

My thought too. Shouldn't this be the biggest headline everywhere? Water on the moon! That's simply amazing.

(Although admittedly less so than the moon base and population of Annunaki/Reptilians/AncientEgyptians/Incans/Niburans/SpacePoo​dles who reside underground)

Makes you wonder what else we've been lied to about.

The picture has nothing to do with the article.

"The unmanned craft was equipped with Nasa’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, designed specifically to search for water by picking up the electromagnetic radiation emitted by minerals."

Hmm this is interesting, I just ate Indian food for dinner

wtf are you talking about? water ice has long been suspected by nasa to be at the poles. We just did not know it was still accumulating.

Big bang

• The Moon is 4.6 billion years old, about the same age as the Earth

• It is thought to have formed from a giant dust cloud caused when a rogue planet collided with the Earth

• It is 238,000 miles from the Earth

• Gravity on the Moon is a sixth of that on Earth

Do y'all think that NASA will still launch their rockets at the moon even if an another space agency already found water on it ?

NASA is still going to smash that probe into a crater in the south pole of the moon on the 9th of October to search for evidence of water. Something tells me they are not looking for evidence of water, otherwise they would have found it looooong ago.

That crater is THE coldest place in our solar system.

Gosh being to the moon as we have been you would think we would of seen some water or signs of it.... Unless we havent been there yet....

Is it true ?

India should bottle and sell Moon Mineral Water and make a killing.

The water isn't floating in ponds and oceans, please be at least moderately scientifically intelligent, shall we? it is chemically bound up in other substances. Water can NOT exsist in the open on the moon in a free state, there is no atmosphere, zero pressure, and the temp extremes vary between freeze and fry to an order of magnitude.

Even as solid ice, it would sublimate off into space as vapor.

it may be technically water, but in no form you could recognize or do anything with without refining it via some process to sperate and concentrate it as H2O.

Or if we didn't look at the right place at the right time.

But then that conclusion requires you actually know something so I don't expect it to come to your class of mind.

sigh...

Ignorance is bliss.

If you had bothered to read the article you would see that it is (until we find something even colder). However they chose the crater first and then sent the probe out, which then measured the temperature ranges at different times and in different orbits around the moon.
[link to www.space.com]

""Diviner has recorded minimum daytime brightness temperatures in portions of these craters of less than -397 degrees Fahrenheit," said David Paige, Diviner's principal investigator and a UCLA professor of planetary science. "These super-cold brightness temperatures are, to our knowledge, among the lowest that have been measured anywhere in the solar system, including the surface of Pluto.""


The question we should be asking now is, why would NASA not have simply used the same instrument that was on board the Indian probe to find water? After all that is exactly what NASA is trying to achieve with their probe, isn't it....? Not to mention the instrument which detected water belongs to NASA. WTF?

"The M3, an imaging spectrometer, was designed to search for water by detecting the electromagnetic radiation given off by different minerals on and just below the surface of the Moon. Unlike previous lunar spectrometers, it was sensitive enough to detect the presence of small amounts of water.

M3 was one of two Nasa instruments among 11 pieces of equipment from around the world on Chandrayaan-1"

fucking NASA

I'm not a chemist, so a sincere question here. If the temp was -300-some K in the crater, would sublimation occur or could ice exist at that temp even in the absence of pressure?

Now that's some high quality H20!

Sublimation would happen, but the current thinking is the rate of loss is matched by incoming hydrogen from the Sun via the solar wind.

Hope this helps.

Of course as we learn more that may well be proven wrong.

old news Thread: WATER ON THE MOON!!!!!

Funny how the Injuns found it.

What the Americans, Soviets, Russians, Chinese, Japs?

follow the white rabbit

"Water gets even weirder at colder temperatures, where it can exist as a liquid in a supercooled state well below its ordinary freezing point. Recent evidence suggests that supercooled water splits its personality into two distinct phases-another oddity unseen in other liquids. And last year, water surprised scientists yet again, when they found that at -63 degrees Celsius, supercooled water's weird behavior returns to "normal.""
[link to findarticles.com]

And a full list;
[link to www1.lsbu.ac.uk]

Are you an expert in how water behaves? You write as if you know everything yet your ignorance is showing.