Given that lunar craters are important tools for scientists to calculate the age of geological features on other planets with solid surfaces, moon maps like the new one assume greater significance.
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 ...
Bottoms of lunar polar craters may harbor ice patches Water ... is being sent to find and map this water on the moon's surface. For future moon exploration, including potential long-term lunar ...
The diminutive vehicle is designed to hop into and out of permanently shadowed regions, providing detailed surface imagery and data on the moon's many craters ... itself to map the distribution ...
It will be the first up-close peek inside one of the many shadowed craters dotting ... separately to the moon over the next several months before entering lunar orbit to map the distribution ...
The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...
Lunar Trailblazer, which weighs about 440 pounds (200 kg) and measures about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) wide when its solar panels are fully deployed, is being sent to find and map this water on the ...
The March 13, 2025 event will be the only lunar eclipse visible from Washington state in 2025. The last lunar eclipse was in 2022.
The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.
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.
Houston-based company Intuitive Machines put its Athena spacecraft on the moon around 12:31 p.m. ET ... Athena’s software includes a map of craters within the area. The algorithm identifies ...