Sentences with phrase «detected traces of water»

The LCROSS results will flesh out the surprise announcements in September that three other spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 and NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini — detected traces of water on the moon's surface by studying reflected infrared light from the sun.

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Its instruments can't capture microbes or detect life, but in a couple of dozen passes through the plumes of Enceladus, it has detected various molecules associated with life: water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, molecular nitrogen, propane, acetylene, formaldehyde and traces of ammonia.

Only trace amounts of water have been detected in the atmosphere.