This is John Batchel, a conversation with a good colleague Bob Zimmerman about the India,

Big Space India probe to the moon, Vikram.

It's several hundred miles from the South Pole.

Nonetheless, it's turning in a result that's fetching, promising, compelling, that there's more water molecules on the moon than expected. Bob explains. Bob is also

dutifully uncommitted about this report, but nonetheless we're all looking for water molecules

as much as possible on the moon because of making fuel in addition to sustaining life. Water is

heavy.

Transporting it to the moon is far-fetched.

We need to find it there or something that can be made into water.

Here's Bob Zimmerman.

More of this tonight.

That is India's, this is not private enterprise, but this is India's lunar lander that landed near several hundred miles from the south pole a few years ago

there was a paper published based on the data from the lunar lander

that suggests strongly

that there might be water molecule or impregnated in the upper lunar soil

in more places than previously predicted they come up with this theory

based on the fact that uh... vicklam landed on a sun-facing slope,

and the temperatures were much higher than expected,

which inversely suggests on these shadows slopes,

the temperatures will be cooler than expected,

and therefore they think there might be more of water impregnated in the soil.

Can I tell you that there's a lot of uncertainty with...

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