Lunar Prospector crash didn't kick up any detectable water ice

Astronomers worldwide who watched for signs of water ice July 31 when NASA's Lunar Prospector probe crashed near the moon's south pole came up empty handed, but they haven't concluded as a result that there is no water on the moon. A University of Texas research team told a planetary science...

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