Water Ice on Moon's surface, NASA confirms

New Delhi : Good news! Soon, human colony may start to exist in the lunar space. NASA scientists have confirmed the presence of water ice on the moon both on its north and south poles. Scientists used Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument to find water in some form on the moon.

The M3 instrument is on board the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1, which studied the moon in 2008 and 2009, according to NBC News.

The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists have found definitive proof of availability of frozen water in several locations on Earth's satellite.

"With enough ice sitting at the surface – within the top few millimeters – water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the moon's surface," said NASA officials in a statement.

As per the official source, the area where most of the ice water has been discovered carries a temperature of minus 250 degree Fahrenhit. The ice water was found in the shadows of craters near the poles. For now, scientists are planning to study the origin of water in the lunar surface. 

"The results seem very convincing to me," Ian Crawford, a planetary scientist at Birkbeck, University of London who was not affiliated with the study, told Scientific American.

Possibly, we will hear someday that earth-like atmosphere has been discovered and we can enjoy easy stay on the Moon.