06 September 2019
India's Chandrayaan-2 lander due to touchdown tonight
... country become the first nation to reach closest to the lunar south pole. This will be India’s second mission to our nearest...place Vikram and Pragyan at a latitude of about 70 degrees south in a high plain between two craters, Manzinus C and ...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
...radiation and vacuum environment it will encounter during its long-term lunar south pole mission. The ILO-1 will be landed on a ‘peak of eternal light’ at the lunar south pole by a Moon Express robotic explorer system. These peaks were first realised...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
... to the Moon – Artemis III – would not head for the lunar South Pole but would land at the Apollo site instead. “I would not, ... if not nearly always, the destination of choice is the lunar south pole. India, China, Europe and the US are among the many...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... over the ‘Moon Village’ idea, which would have nations clustering together in adjoining domes located at the lunar south pole. To make such outposts viable – and perhaps those on Mars too – most believe that fuel, air, food...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... could be Shackleton, a permanently shaded region (PSR) located close to the lunar south pole - despite receiving more diffracted radio interference from the earth than a true lunar far side location. Although an observatory in the PSR has a somewhat...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Italy. Several of the missions will be science-led investigations to better observe the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar south pole for water ice. Others, like BioSentinel led by NASA Ames, will be evaluating the effects of deep space...
