'Bunker buster' missiles aim at Moon By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Tests have been carried out on ground penetrating missiles using 'bunker buster' technology that could be fired into the depths of dark lunar craters to look for ice. The proposed mission is called Polar Night, a lunar orbiter that would fire instrumented missiles towards the surface of the Moon. Tests performed recently in New Mexico have shown that scientific equipment could survive the rapid deceleration of striking the ground and being buried a few metres beneath the surface of the Moon. The researchers hope that...