<p>"There is confirmation of traces of water.It is a path-breaking event as far as Chandrayaan-1 mission is concerned. It is very very significant. So far, no mission has confirmed the presence of water positively," he said.<br /><br />One of the major instruments that gave the data was Moon Mineralogy Mapper of NASA, which was one of the payloads on board India's maiden Moon mission supplemented by hyper-spectral imager and moon impact probe of Indian Space Research Organisation.<br />The data analysis was done by scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US and Physical Research Laboratory and Space Application Centre, both headquartered in Ahmedabad, he said.<br /><br />Nair said ISRO would make a formal announcement and disclose detailed analysis tomorrow following the publication of findings in a science journal and announcement by NASA scientists.<br /><br />Chandrayaan-1, launched in October last year, ended prematurely last month ahead of its two-year life span but Nair has maintained that it had achieved 95 per cent of its objectives.</p>
<p>"There is confirmation of traces of water.It is a path-breaking event as far as Chandrayaan-1 mission is concerned. It is very very significant. So far, no mission has confirmed the presence of water positively," he said.<br /><br />One of the major instruments that gave the data was Moon Mineralogy Mapper of NASA, which was one of the payloads on board India's maiden Moon mission supplemented by hyper-spectral imager and moon impact probe of Indian Space Research Organisation.<br />The data analysis was done by scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US and Physical Research Laboratory and Space Application Centre, both headquartered in Ahmedabad, he said.<br /><br />Nair said ISRO would make a formal announcement and disclose detailed analysis tomorrow following the publication of findings in a science journal and announcement by NASA scientists.<br /><br />Chandrayaan-1, launched in October last year, ended prematurely last month ahead of its two-year life span but Nair has maintained that it had achieved 95 per cent of its objectives.</p>
