"I rank this as a game changer for lunar science, " he said in the wake of Chandrayaan's findings. "In my mind this is possibly the most significant discovery about the moon since the Apollo era."

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been sending back loads of pretty pictures and gobs of new science about our nearest astronomical neighbor, and the folks at NASA hosted several outreach events.

The researchers presented the map at this week's 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference near Houston.