LCROSS, the lunar crater Observation and Sensor Satellite, launched last week, has a mission objective to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a Shadowed crater near a lunarpole.
NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, last month slammed into one of moon's permanently shadowed craters near the south pole to study whether ice was buried underneath.
Extremely cold regions similar to the one in Hermite crater were found at the bottoms of several permanently shaded craters at the lunar South Pole and were measured in the depths of winter night.