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- Character and Spatial Distribution of OH/H2O on the Surface of the Moon Seen by M3 on Chandrayaan-1
  - Original article citation: Science doi:10.1126/science.1178658 (2009)
  - Categories: Earth & Environment, Materials, Physics, and Space & astronomy
  - Recommended by: Mainak Mookherjee on 10/18/2009 02:59PM GMT
  - Reasons for recommending:
    This article reports detection and mapping of water (hydroxyl stretch in the infrared) on the surface of Moon. India played a key role in the mission and authors include researchers from PRL and ISRO. Implications for discovery of water are endless. Importance of water for life on a planetary body or development of geomorphic features/weathering, fueling plate tectonics (as in planet Earth) are just a few implications for such a discovery.

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