Has years of research by lunar probes led to the discovery of water on the moon?

Three lunar probes have astounded scientists as the chemical compounds of water have been discovered all over the lunar surface.

We are not talking about amounts of water that would sustain life on the surface. But it could hold enough to supply explorers with drinking water and fuel.

The discovery has made scientists change their minds about the moon being a dead rock in space. There is something actually going on there.


Recent discoveries have shown that the moon has water all over it.


The first discover came from the Indian satellite, Chandrayaan-1. Scientists at first dismissed it as an error. Chandrayaan-1 ended it’s mission back on August 29th and slammed into the lunar surface.

After not being able to find the error, NASA’s deep impact probe, which was doing a flyby of the moon on the way to a comet, scanned for the water and it as well detected it.


NASA will be launching a Centaur Rocket into the lunar south Pole in late October, and studying what is kicked up with the LCROSS satellite.


Finally, NASA looked at records from the Cassini probe 10 years ago. Cassini is currently circling Saturn. After analyzing the data from it’s flyby of the moon on the way there, the water was detected then as well.

When asked about if water was detected from the moon rocks returned from the Apollo missions, NASA said that water was detected but was dismissed as being contaminated from the Earth’s environment.

The next step is to find out how it gets there. One idea is that solar wind carrying hydrogen atoms bond with oxygen atoms with surfaces. This means that water could exist in more places in our solar system then we realize.

Also, NASA is going to use it’s LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) to detect the findings impacting a Centaur rocket it will be launching into the lunar south pole in late October.