India's own Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on board the country's maiden lunar craft had discovered water on the moon, a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA's probe that was also aboard Chandrayaan-
India's first lunar mission had made a "path-breaking and real discovery" by establishing the presence of water on the moon, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Nair said.
While expressing pride in the achievement, Nair added: "But the water is not in the form of sea or lake or puddle or drops. It is embedded on the surface in minerals and rocks."
Apart from India's MIP, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) of NASA on board Chandrayaan-
According to Nair, the "quantity found is much larger than expected".
On whether water can be extracted, Nair said: "Yes, we can. But one tonne of soil may yield half a litre."
Nair said MIP picked up signals about the presence of water as it journeyed down to land on the moon surface.
"One of the main objectives of Chandrayaan-
He said they had indications of the finding "way back in June", but waited all these days to make it public as they wanted the findings to come out in a scientific journal first.
"The volume of data collected from Chandrayaan-
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