图上的绿色和蓝绿色显示了水冰分布。图片来源:PNAS The Indian Space Agency launched its Chandrayaan-1 mission to the moon in 2008 and was swiftly rewarded with evidence of frozen water on the lunar surface a year later. Rather than sheets of ice on the surface, the water is thought to exist as water molecules bound to grains of moon dust.
印度航天局2008年发射了“月船1号”探月器。一年后,该探月器就找到了月球表面存在冰冻水的证据。人们认为,月球上的水以水分子的形式存在,它们同月球灰尘结合在一起,而不是以月球表面的冰层形式存在。
Soon after the Indian feat, Nasa crashed a spacecraft into the 100km-wide Cabeus crater which is in permanent shade on the moon’s south pole. The intentional act of lunar violence threw up a plume of debris from which scientists were able to confirm the presence of water on the moon.
印度的这项发现之后不久,美国航天局将一个航天器撞向位于月球南极永久阴影区、直径100公里的卡贝乌斯环形山。这次有意为之的撞击扬起了许多碎屑,科学家们由此才能确认月球上水的存在。
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