NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Ready to Search for the Moon’s Water Ice

It’s known that water ice exists below the lunar regolith (broken rock and dust), but scientists don’t yet understand whether surface ice frost covers the floors inside these cold craters. To find out, NASA is sending Lunar Flashlight, a small satellite (or SmallSat) no larger than a briefcase. Skimming low over the lunar South Pole, it will use lasers …