Beijing: Chinese scientists have detected the presence of water in the moon’s soil. Chinese scientists have found water molecules in the moon’s soil. This information has been given by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This discovery has been made possible through China’s Chang’e-5 mission, which brought soil samples from the moon and sent them to Earth in 2020. Chang’e-5 is an important lunar mission of China, which collected samples of soil and rocks from the surface of the moon in December 2020. The main objective of the mission was to understand the structure and origin of the surface of the moon.
The report was published on July 16
According to the news of the Hong Kong-based ‘South China Morning Post’, this research was done jointly by researchers from the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute of Physics of CAS and other domestic research institutes. The research report was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on July 16. The CAS said on Tuesday that based on lunar soil samples brought by the Chang’e-5 mission in 2020, Chinese scientists have found a hydrated mineral “containing” molecular water.
This is a big achievement
The discovery of water in lunar soil by China’s Chang’e-5 mission is an important achievement, which is very important not only from a scientific point of view but also for the future of space exploration. This will give us an opportunity to know and understand more about the moon, as well as open up new possibilities for future space missions.
What did India’s Chandrayaan-1 do
In 2009, India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft detected signs of hydrated minerals in the form of oxygen and hydrogen molecules in sunlit areas of the Moon. Its instruments also included NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an imaging spectrometer, which helped confirm the discovery of water in minerals on the moon.
