Mysteries of Moon

In a controversial story this week the Indian space agency have claimed that their Chandrayaan-1 space probe detected signs of organic matter on the lunar surface inNovember.

Research to confirm the find is ongoing."Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) are on the brink of a path-breaking discovery. They may have found signs of life in some form or the other on theMoon."

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A controversial new theory has been proposed suggesting that our moon didn"t form around the Earth but instead formed in orbit around Mercury and later migrated out until it was caught by Earth"sgravity and roped in to orbit."The moon may have been adopted by our planet instead of descended from it.

If a new twist on a decades-old theory is right, conditions in the early solar system suggest the moon formed inside Mercury"s orbit and migrated out until itwas roped into orbit around Earth."

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A new study of rocks returned by the Apollo missions has revealed that the moon has far more water on it than thought.Scientists found 100 times more water existed within the moon"s minerals than was previously believed and that there could be enough water on the moon to fill the Great Lakes two-and-a-halftimes over.

The Moon might be much wetter than previously thought, a group of scientists has said. A US-led team analysed the mineral apatite in lunar rocks picked up by the Apollo space missions and in a lunar meteorite found in North Africa.

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A linguistic analysis has confirmed that Neil Armstrong did miss out the "a" in his "one small step for man" speech when he first set foot on the Moon in 1969, it is thought he missed out the letter due to the pressure of the trip."Neil Armstrong missed out an "a" and did not say "one small step for a man" when he set foot on the Moon in 1969, a linguistic analysis has confirmed."

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