The Indian space program has more reason to rejoice with the Chandrayaan-1 Lunar mission discovering water on the moon’s surface. The maiden lunar mission launched in October 2008 carried 11 payloads, one of which was NASA’s moon mineralogy mapper (M3). “The evidence of water molecules on the surface of the moon was found by the moon mineralogy mapper (M3) of the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on board Chandrayaan-1,” M3 principal investigator Pieters said in a paper published in the journal Science.
On Wednesday India also launched seven satellites into orbit in a span of 20 minutes. It included the Oceansat-2, India 16th remote sensing satellite and six nano-satellites from various countries.
