Water in the Moon?

Scientists claim they have proof of existence of water in the soil of the Moon. As per report of the astronauts, a surprising amount of water found to exist in the Moon's soil. Important data received from three space crafts of different continents including one from Asia shows that very fine film of H20 coat the particles that make up the lunar dirt. The Scientists assume the quantity is small but it can be useful for the astronauts who wish to live in the Moon. Squeezing one cubic meter of lunar soil, a scientist can collect one litre of water. Clearly speaking in scientific language, if we take a spherical shaped body with the inner volume of one cubic meter and then fill it with the lunar dirt and compress, it gives one litre water. Among the three spacecrafts, one is from our neighbor country India that launched Chandrayaan-1which is the India's first mission to lunar orbit. Other two spacecrafts to look at the Moon - Nasa's Deep Impact probe and the US-European Cassini satellite - back up Chandrayaan. The very interesting thing is both the spacecrafts collected Moon data long before Chandrayaan did but the significance of water existence was realized only few days ago. Scientists suspect the water created in the soil in an interaction with the solar wind and the quantity of water is small but they predict that the astronauts based on the Moon could use it as a resource. Whether the quantity is small or big, but it is easy enough to split into hydrogen and oxygen. The Indian space agency is going to consider water discovery a major triumph and a vindication of its endeavors. Some scientists on the mission suggested there could be up to 300 million tonnes of water-ice buried in crater soils that never see Sunlight. Chandrayyan made its observations using a US-provided instrument, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3 that assessed nature of lunar soils by analysing the way that light from the sun reflected off the surface. The non-scientists might face difficulties in understanding the process but scientists including students of relevant departments even from Bangladeshi universities should not have problems. Thousands of students with the unique results at SSC and HSC examinations from science backgrounds are coming to the capital city with the expectation to become a scientist of the present world. Through interrogation with them, very interesting, exciting and encouraging information come out. A certain percentage of boys and girls alike want to become astronauts. The ambitious boys and girls know the sufferings and barriers faced by the woman astronaut Ms. Julie Paette who flew 4 million miles  on Space Shuttle Discovery from May 27 to June 6, 1999 as a Crew member of STS-96. Even then they are adamant and eagerly waiting for the scopes.

 If we analyze the matter in Bangladesh contexts, we find Bangladesh is far behind from such activities. Bangladesh is obviously poor in that respects. Space and astronaut are the two almost unknown words, though SPARSO have some activities. We are depriving our new generations from entering into the world of space. They have the right to explore the space and planets. They want to fly as the proud astronauts of Bangladesh and discover the living beings in the Moon. It might sound abnormal to most people in the country. If we want to introduce ourselves as the citizens of the present world, we will have to take the initiatives of empowering the new generations on those disciplines. Due to our ignorance, we should not deprive our kids. Let us give them the opportunity to grow up with new vision and ideas.