NASA announced, yesterday Monday, October 26, a major discovery. Water is on the surface of the moon exposed to daylight.
Indeed, a major study carried out by the space agency affirms the detection of water molecules below the lunar surface exposed to sunlight. A first made possible by the stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy (SOFIA), an infrared telescope developed by NASA and the German space agency. Scientists have so far thought that water was more stable in the dark craters and regions of the night star, recall Sciences & Avenir.
According to one of the researchers authors of this discovery, the French Olivier Groussin, of the Marseille astrophysics laboratory, more than 10 years ago already the analyzes of the data provided by the Chandrayaan-1 and EPIX probes suggested that the lunar surface would contain the equivalent of half a liter of water per hectare on average.
The signing of water molecules in the field of infrared seemed to have been obtained by the instruments of the space probes flying over the moon, in particular the one named Moon Mineralogy map fitting Chandraya-1.
