Topic
Moon science
2 questions tagged Moon science — spanning every one of the seven Ws.
whose
Whose mission first discovered ice at the Moon’s south pole?
NASA’s LCROSS mission, with Anthony Colaprete as lead scientist, found evidence of water ice in a permanently shadowed lunar crater in 2009. The impact plume revealed the hidden ice.
Space explorationMoon science
which
Which mission first detected water on the Moon in sunlight-lit soil?
India’s Chandrayaan-1 helped provide key evidence for water molecules on the Moon’s surface and in the soil. NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper on board detected the signature of hydroxyl and water across sunlit regions.
AstronomyMoon science