On May 24, 10:23*pm, YKhan wrote:
Apparently the dispute is over which instrument aboard the
Chandrayaan-1 probe made the first detection. The probe itself is
Indian, but there were two NASA instruments onboard. Was it the NASA
instruments that discovered it first, or the Indian one? Seems rather
mundane, considering the instruments were carried on an Indian
spacecraft. Usually it's the spacecraft itself that gets the credit.

* * Yousuf Khan

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Nasa sidelining India's moon men? - India - The Times of India
"MUMBAI: Has the path-breaking discovery of water on the moon by
Chandrayaan-1 robbed Indian scientists of their due? Some Indian lunar
scientists feel that their role has been completely sidelined by their
American counterparts, who were also a part of the Rs 386-crore lunar
mission. "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Nasa-sidelining-Indias-moon-...

Raw water-ice does not likely exist on that naked surface, not even
within those polar craters at 25 K. Such vacuum exposed ice would
have to be covered or protected by something unless it was either
recently delivered or having leaked/vented out from the lunar
interior. There should be geode like pockets of mineral saturated
brines inside of our moon/Selene, and especially under that thick and
robust basalt lithosphere.

~ BG