One of the leading candidate sites for future lunar exploration is Shackleton Crater, a 20-km-diameter, 4-km-deep depression offset 10 km from the south pole of the Moon. The perpetual darkness that exists at th
The most recent India moon landing mission was completed on August 23, 2023. This monumental space mission led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) became the first to land on the lunar South Pole.
LUNRW) (“Intuitive Machines”) (“Company”), a leading space exploration, infrastructure, and services company, has announced the IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, landed 250 meters from its intended landing site in the Mons Mouton region of the lunar south pole,...
Pei Zhaoyu, spokesman for the Chang'e 5 mission, said that project planners considered scientific, technical and engineering factors when choosing an ideal landing site for the spacecraft. The first determinant was related to the landing site's scientific value-the place should be unexplored by pr...
Geological characteristics of Von Kármán crater, northwestern South Pole–Aitken basin: Chang’e-4 landing site region. J. Geophys. Res. Planets 123, 1684–1700 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar Du, J. et al. Thickness of lunare mare basalts: new results based on modeling the ...
Intuitive Machines lands Odysseus Moon lander on lunar South Pole Houston-based company Intuitive Machines said it successfully landed its Odysseus lander on the Moon. The touchdown marked the first private Moon landing and the first American mission in more than 50 years. Intuitive Machines CEO St...
Short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, VIPER will set down close to the western edge of the Nobile Crater at the moon’s south pole, NASA announced on Monday, September 20. Tour of NASA Moon Rover South Pole Landing Site ...
The lunar south pole looks haunting in a new mosaic image that uses photography from two different NASA cameras in orbit around the moon.
It has investigated the radiation environment on the Moon and located possible landing sites for the next missions. •Note: To ascertain whether water-ice is present in a crater at the Moon's south pole that is constantly shaded, NASA launched the Lunar Crater (Cohen et al., 2023) ...
(CE-6) landing zone has been selected to lie within the lunar farside South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin in the southern part of the Apollo basin (150–158° W, 41–45° S), a site that provides access to a diversity of SPA material. Here, we describe the geomorphology, geology ...