The recent analysis of data from India`s first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan 1 and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from NASA has found that there is evidence of water distribution along the lunar surface. This floating of water is not a constraint to one single region or the type of region.

“The findings could help researchers understand the origin of the moon’s water and how easy it would be to use as a resource. If the moon has enough water, and if it’s reasonably convenient to access, future explorers might be able to use it as drinking water or convert it into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel or oxygen to breathe,” says the statement.

“The team applied this temperature model to data gathered earlier by the moon mineralogy mapper, a visible and infrared spectrometer that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, provided for India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter,” it has stated.

“We find that it doesn’t matter what time of the day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present,” said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute.

NASA says that water is present irrespective of day and night and they can easily access the water floating regions as they are almost everywhere on the lunar surface.

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