THICK LUNAR ICE

摘要

In 2009, The Indian Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft spent eight months mapping the surface of the Moon, Paul Spudis was the principal investigator of an instrument called the Mini-SAR imaging radar whose purpose was to characterize the composition of the lunar surface. At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas in March, Spudis reported the good news: "What we think we have here is a clear indication of water ice - crystalline water ice."