US and India join in lunar ice search

[Sam Fraser]

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 will team up on August 20 to perform a Bi-Static radar experiment to search for water ice in a crater on the Moon's north pole.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/08/19/lro-chandrayaan-1-team-up-for-unique-search-for-water-ice/

Has the existence of water ice anywhere on the moon actually been confirmed yet?

[Sam Fraser]

Hopes dashed:

A highly anticipated Bi-static radar experiment to look for possible water ice hiding in polar craters on the Moon failed due to the deterioration and eventual loss of the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/10/anticipated-joint-experiment-with-chandrayaan-1-and-lro-failed/

Hope anew:

NASA has selected a final destination for its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS.....LCROSS will search for water ice by sending its spent upper-stage Centaur rocket to impact the permanently shadowed polar crater.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2009/09-118AR.html