2/16/10: The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a NASA instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which earlier this year found evidence of water on the moon, has now identified a new lunar rock type.
Brown University Professor of Geological Sciences Carle Pieters, lead author of the present study, announced the new findings.
Read an article in The Hindu here.
Brown-India Moon Probe Finds New Lunar Rock Type
February 16th, 2010 by Anastasia M. Aguiar