On Friday, the missile was successfully crashed into the moon at the desired location.
While it was predicted that it would kick up a plume of material that would be visible from Earth, no such immediately visible plume was detected.
Equipment on Earth however did pick up information from the crash which indicated that material had in fact been kicked up and disturbed by the missile crash. This information came in the form of changes to the amount and intensity of different types of light, which can be analyzed through spectrophotometry to determine the composition of the material that was kicked up by the crash. Hopefully, traces of more water will be found.
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