NASA Announces LCROSS Detection of Water on Moon
In a press conference today, available online here, NASA announced preliminary results from its LCROSS mission to the Moon and its spectrometer. Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center, stated that “multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact.” Colaprete was quick to note that “the concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis.”