Launched in September 2011, the spacecraft were designed to map tiny variations in the pull of gravity around the lunar body.

BBC: Nasa reveals new information about moon probes crash sites

This is the real lunar influence on our lives: gravity and tides, not werewolves and pregnant women.

CNN: The sun, the moon and the Titanic

Ebb and Flow deliberately plunged into a lunar mountain in December after mapping the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.

NPR: NASA Moon Craft Spots Ebb And Flow Crash Sites

The discovery of ice is sure to overshadow the many other things Lunar Prospector will achieve (such as the first complete map of the moon's gravity, also announced this week).

ECONOMIST: At least lunar gold-diggers will be able to take a shower