Here's an interesting article post the other day.
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03...r-on-the-moon/
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/
Hopefully more info will be avail online for download.
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Originally Posted by telecasterguru
If they found the ice by simply looking into craters from a satellite, why did they recently have to crash a probe into the surface and have another probe fly through the dust to see if there was ice there?
Frank
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Because it's not 'just' H2O they were looking for/testing.
It may look like waterice, and emit vapour of water ice; but often you need to take a taste to work out whether it is flavoured water ice
