The map is expected to throw new light on ... was the first mission to land in a high-latitude polar region of the moon, 630 km from the south pole, and scientists considered it the best bet ...

Chandrayaan-3 landed near the moon's south pole, where rough terrain can make ... a robot rover that will record and map images of water ice. 2025: Artemis III will land humans near the south ...

The first map of the distribution of water on the ... In 2020, SOFIA became the first mission to unambiguously detect water at the moon's south pole; researchers then calculated there to be ...

New observations from the SOFIA airborne observatory (which completed its final flight in September 2022) produced a detailed map of water molecules near the moon’s South Pole. These results ...

as can be seen in this gravity map of the surface where red indicates high ground and purple low ground (Credit: Nasa) There are many scientific reasons to explore the Moon's South Pole ...

The new map covers about one-quarter of the Earth-facing side of the lunar surface, below 60 degrees latitude and extends to the Moon’s South Pole. Given the large region covered, the ...

The satellite is designed to map the entire sky in 3D ... close to the lunar south pole. Not only was the milestone the first successful moon landing by a private company, it was also the first ...