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Tentative Signs of Water Found on Moon
By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 17 September 2009
02:05 pm ET
New data and images from NASA's new moon orbiter — the first in more than a decade — have revealed tentative signs of lunar water ice, the space agency announced Thursday.
The powerful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon. The spacecraft's instruments have also made measurements of space radiation in the lunar environment and have found more widespread possible signatures of water on the moon.
READ MORE: Space.com
