The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is currently under study for launch in 2013 on a Minotaur-V. LADEE is designed to characterize the tenuous lunar atmosphere and dust environment from orbit.
These samples provide the best window we have on the amount of water in the interior of the moon. A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals.