There's Frost on the Moon -- and All Across the Solar System

Yes, there is water on the Moon.Twenty years ago, evidence of frost-coated regions near the Moon's poles was greeted with surprise and skepticism. Ten years ago, a NASA instrument aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 space probe greatly boosted the case for water ice on the Moon. Then two weeks ago, a much deeper analysis of the Chandrayaan-1 data validated the surprise and ended the skepticism: Some permanently shadowed "cold-trap" craters near the lunar poles clearly do contain regions that ar