An annotated version of the opening image, the arrow indicates a boulder track. Faint horizontal lines are camera artifacts that will eventually be removed once we have obtained a robust inflight ...

The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure the best access to its resources. Reading time 3 minutes The interior of ...

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Apollo landed on bright lunar plains, but Artemis is being aimed toward the lunar South Pole, where astronauts could face darkness, unstable terrain, and temperatures near minus 415 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole is one of the locations on NASA's shortlist for human exploration with the future Artemis missions. But because craters at the lunar poles—like Shackleton—at ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spends a fair deal of its time photographing craters. Granted, that's par for the course on the Moon, and not every lunar pot mark or meteoroid impact is worth ...

The Chang'e 7 mission is aiming for a coveted spot on the lunar south pole, one that made the list of NASA's candidate landing regions. Reading time 2 minutes China is planning to send its next lander ...

ICY MOON: Mapping the floor of the Moon’s Shackleton Crater in what NASA describes as unprecedented detail, agency scientists and university researchers have calculated that unusually bright laser ...

This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows crater Shackleton on the Moon. AMIE obtained this image on 13 January 2006 – close to the time ...