"Bad news is?
The Japanese Kaguya lunar orbiter has failed to find any evidence
for lunar ice in Shakleton Crater. "
No, it hasn't found any shiny ice rinks:
"No ice rinks on the Moon after all
Hopes for large lakes of frozen water at the Moon's poles have taken another bashing, with new images of a prominent crater revealing dull lunar dust instead of shiny pools of ice."
No ice rinks
Linked from: http://www.nasawatch.com/
From New scientist:
"The images were snapped by the spacecraft's Terrain Camera, which can resolve objects as small as 10 metres across."
Which is an excellent resolution, but it's still piss poor.
If you look at photo and read the caption:
"A few craters spanning hundreds of metres pockmark Shackleton's inner wall (arrows)"
You get some idea of the scale, e.g if you had a yellow school bus in that crater, you probably wouldn't see it
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