Next gold rush is the moon. The LCROSS satellite that was purposely crashed onto the moon, to discover water, but found gold also. The article also indicated that there might be more water on the moon than earth. By Lee Spiegle: That's the conclusion of many scientists who have spent the past year analyzing data from NASA's LCROSS spacecraft, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, which was intentionally crashed into the south polar region of the moon. LCROSS's original 2009 mission was to search for traces of water when it hit the perpetually shadowed crater called Cabeus. Not only did it find water, it found tons of it.