On 24 September 2009, it was reported that the NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 probe had detected absorption features near 2.8–3.0 μm on the surface of the Moon. On 14 November 2008, India released the Moon Impact Probe onboard Chandrayaan-1 orbiter to impact into the Shackleton crater which helped confirm the presence of water ice. For silicate bodies, such features are typically attributed to hydroxyl- and/or water-bearing materials. In August 2018, NASA confirmed that M3 showed water ice is present on the surface at the Moon poles.Water on the Moon: Direct evidence from Chandrayaan-1's Moon Impact Probe. Published on 2010/04/07. Water was confirmed to be on the sunlit surface of the Moon by NASA on October 26, 2020.
