2.6 Results from SELENE
Frustratingly, however, Kaguya failed to see any evidence for water-ice exposed in the bottom of Shackleton crater, and these findings only generated further debate about the likelihood of finding any water on the Moon. (The two images above show the same region. On the left is a normal exposure. On the right the data have been processed to bring out the previously invisible detail inside the shadows, which are illuminated faintly by the sunlight reflected diffusely into them from the sunlit areas.)