Water Around a Fresh Crater Target Name:   Moon Spacecraft:   Chandrayaan-1 Instrument:   Moon Mineralogy Mapper Produced by:   ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown Univ. Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Date Released:  2009-09-24

• Water Molecules Found on the Moon
• The Moon

These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl-rich materials were found to be associated with material ejected from the crater.