This just in from AP wire services: Moon Does Not Have Expanses of Ice

The most exacting analysis yet of the moon's

 mysterious polar craters found no sign of the vast 

expanses of ice that scientists had hoped future 

lunar colonists could someday mine for precious, 

life-sustaining water.



 

The findings do not mean there is no ice in the

 permanently shaded craters. But if there is ice, 

it is probably mixed into the lunar soil in widely 

scattered flecks or in thin layers.



  

``It certainly would have been nice to find some 

sort of lunar skating rink, or thick layers of ice, but 

it looks like it's just not there,'' said Bruce Campbell 

of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Earth 

and Planetary Studies.

Well, what do they expect? The moon is a refrigerator, not a freezer. They need to look on the Lower Southeast Quadrant Shelf near the Lunar Kitchen Window, and they need to be looking for cheese, not ice.