A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday, aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole this time with a ...

From this panel, we're looking at the garage, so that's *** lunar outpost map rover inside of that ... working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission ...

Just 400m away is a permanently shadowed crater — the ultimate destination ... which would fly separately to the moon over the next several months before entering lunar orbit to map the distribution ...

The bottoms of hundreds of craters at the moon's South Pole ... is being sent to find and map this water on the moon's surface. For future moon exploration, including potential long-term lunar ...

which has a distinctly Death Star-like appearance thanks to the huge Herschel crater on one side of the moon. Lakdawalla pointed out that the Google map labels Herschel as a crater on the exact ...

The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

Assuming IM-2 lands on target, the crater — known only as ... a NASA probe that will map the distribution of water-ice across the Moon; Japan’s 1.1-pound (0.5 kg) Yaoki mini-rover; and the ...

Athena’s software includes a map of craters within the area ... have scouted out a safe spot — avoiding treacherous craters, moon rocks and other obstacles. • Terminal Descent: This is ...

Because of the extreme cold inside the crater, the direction ... a $95-million satellite designed to map the distribution of different forms of water across the Moon. Run by Caltech’s Infrared ...

Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander ... where it will map the form, distribution and abundance of water. Scientists believe there is frozen water in the moon’s craters that never receive ...