Detection of Water in the LCROSS Ejecta Plume

By A. Colaprete, P. Schultz, J. Heldmann, D. Wooden, M. Shirley, K. Ennico, B. Hermalyn, W. Marshall, A. Ricco, R. Elphic and 7 more. Science, 2010

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Lunar resources (2014, background): “…results of NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which impacted into a permanently shadowed region of the southern polar crater Cabeus in 2009 and measured a water ice concentration of 5.6 + 2.9 wt% (1 sigma errors) in the target regolith (Colaprete et al., 2010).”
Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration (2012, methodology): “The presence of water ice in permanently shadowed craters was supported by the LCROSS impact experiment, which found a water ice concentration of 5.6 ± 2.9 % by weight in the target regolith at the Cabeus crater (Colaprete et al., 2010).”
Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields (2012, background): “The latest results based on the analysis of debris following an impact on the lunar surface provide strong evidence for the presence of water (Colaprete et al., 2010), but ice has not been detected yet.”
Heterogeneous distribution of H2O in the Martian interior: Implications for the abundance of H2O in depleted and enriched mantle sources (2016, background): “FMM, PS, and JF acknowledge support from NASA’s Mars Fundamental Research Program through grant NNX13AG44G awarded to FMM and grant NNX13AG35G awarded to JF.”