<span style="color: #222222;">Using data from the Chandrayaan-I spacecraft, that was launched by India 10 years ago, NASA on Tuesday said that scientists have found frozen water deposits in the darkest and coldest parts of the Moon's polar regions. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Scientists used data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), to identify three specific signatures that definitively prove there is water ice at the surface of the Moon. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to the study published in the journal PNAS, the ice deposits are patchily distributed and could possibly be ancient. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The study said with enough ice sitting at the surface within the top few millimetres water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Most of the newfound water ice lies in the shadows of craters near the poles, where the warmest temperatures never reach above minus 156 degrees Celsius.   </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Due to the very small tilt of the Moon's rotation axis, sunlight never reaches these regions.</span><br />''