Trace organics on the Moon
By scientists of the 'Indian Space Research Organisation comes news that if confirmed squoterebbe the foundations of our knowledge about the Moon.
The announcement by Surendra Pal, director of 'ISRO Satellite Centre, is one that can not fail to notice change. During the first Indian unmanned mission, called Chandrayaan-1, the instruments aboard the probe would reveal the presence on the lunar surface for traces of organic material. In fact residual carbon species, fundamental building block of all the "bodies" or residual material of the same.
Pal said that signatures of carbon, as detected by mass spectrometer, were transmitted from the probe to Bylalu Deep Space Network station near Bangalore during the first lunar impact (MIP) dating back to November 14, 2008.
Transmission occurs just before the probe crashed on the moon. The MIP was the first experiment of the mission Chandrayaan-1, launched October 22, 2008.
Pal concluded his statement by saying that the data are being analyzed and the ballot since they can then be validated.
Cautiously he annotated the speech arguing that 'It is too early to say something "without, however, deny the discovery.
Other scientists are part of the mission Chandrayaan-1 not only confirmed what was said by Pal but added further details. "They were detected certain atomic numbers that indicate the presence of carbonio.Ciò indicates the possibility that there is organic material (the Moon).
And 'interesting to note that trace elements were found in organic material on the Moon Apollo 11 recovered the instruments of the time were not then able to confirm. ISRE Now scientists are searching for the source of these organic materials, that may be comets, meteorites or terrestrial equipment arrived on the satellite. They themselves, however, argue that, given the presence of ice and water molecules above the poles, the presence of organic matter becomes a real possibility.
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