Water_Around_Fresh_Moon_Crater.jpg


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English: These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infra-red wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl -rich materials were found to be associated with material ejected from the crater.
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Source NASA Mission News
Author ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown Univ.

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28 September 2009