Moon's South Pole: No Evidence For Ice Sheets

Using the highest resolution radar-signal images ever made of the moon – images from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Arecibo Telescope in Arecibo, P.R., and the NSF’s Robert C. Byrd Telescope in Green Bank, W.Va. – planetary astronomers have found no evidence for ice in craters at the lunar south pole. Cornell University, Smithsonian Institution and Australian scientists report the findings in the latest Nature (Oct. 19, 2006).

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news80396676.html">Moon's South Pole: No Evidence For Ice Sheets</a></p> <p>Using the highest resolution radar-signal images ever made of the moon – images from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Arecibo Telescope in Arecibo, P.R., and the NSF’s Robert C. Byrd Telescope in Green Bank, W.Va. – planetary astronomers have found no evidence for ice in craters at the lunar south pole. Cornell University, Smithsonian Institution and Australian scientists report the findings in the latest <i>Nature</i> (Oct. 19, 2006).</p>