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Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.
A new study using NASA's and DLR's now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the first detailed, wide-area map of water distribution on the Moon.
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was a private person. Therefore, when he spoke, it commanded attention. Here he ...
So some fine tuning was in order. We first learned of the main locations NASA is targeting for a Moon landing back in 2022, when no less than 13 areas were announced as potentially suitable.
NASA released an update of its Artemis III moon landing regions. The agency will likely explore one of these nine candidate areas this decade as it establishes a permanent presence on the moon.
This map from ispace shows the prime landing site of the Resilience lander (bright red dot with white arrow) in the Sea of Cold region of the moon's far northern hemisphere.
A geological map of Chandrayaan-3's landing site showing secondary crater chains in blue and boulders in yellow. Credit: R.K. Sinha et al. Scientists mapping the landing site of India’s ...
NASA has unveiled nine potential landing regions near the moon's South Pole for the Artemis III mission, marking the first crewed lunar landing in over 50 years. These regions, all uncharted by ...
This image shows nine candidate landing regions for NASA’s Artemis III mission, with each region containing multiple potential sites for the first crewed landing on the Moon in more than 50 years.
Space Intuitive Machines sends another probe to the moon, but can't stick the landing Updated March 6, 20255:13 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By ...
The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium held a moon launch and landing facilities workshop on July 23, 2024. The consortium is administered by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in ...