India's Chandrayaan-1space mission finds water on the moon...

An Indian space mission claims to have found water on the moon, raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades.

It has been widely believed that the moon was dry, but data from India's Chandrayaan-1 mission allegedly found clear evidence of water there, apparently concentrated at the poles and possibly formed by the solar wind.

What's more, water appears to still be forming, advancing the possibility that human life could be sustained there. Scientists hope that astronauts could one day not only drink the water but extract oxygen from it to breathe and hydrogen to use as fuel. More...

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