The man who led the mission, Dr Mylswamy Annadurai, told the Times today how pleased he was at the discovery, which significantly enhances India's position in its space race with China. Scientists hope that astronauts could one day not only drink the water but extract oxygen from it to breathe and hydrogen to use as fuel.
What's more, water appears to still be forming, advancing the possibility that human life could be sustained there.
It has been widely believed that the moon was dry, but data from India's Chandrayaan-1 mission allegedly found clear evidence of water there, apparently concentrated at the poles and possibly formed by the solar wind. An Indian space mission claims to have found water on the moon, raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades.
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