The discovery of water has been  announced in three research papers in the online edition of the journal Science and it will encourage those who want to establish human colonies on the moon.

An American instrument on India’s first lunar satellite has detected surprisingly large amounts of water locked up in the moon’s rocks and soils.

“This is a major discovery that will have a significant impact on international plans for exploration of the Moon,” said Marc Norman, a lunar researcher at the Australian National University. “One caveat – it is important to realise that this is not liquid water like our oceans, nor ice like on the Mars polar caps. Rather this water on the moon appears to be bound up with minerals,” he said.

The scientific question now is where the lunar water came from ???