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 ...

This aims to map sources of water on the moon to shed ... it will examine features including the permanently shadowed craters at the moon's South Pole, which could contain significant quantities ...

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 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 ...

NASA is among the customers with payloads on Athena but is also launching a ride-sharing mission on the SpaceX rocket, known as Lunar Trailblazer, a spacecraft that will map water ice on the Moon.

One is the NASA-made Lunar Trailblazer probe, which seeks to map the distribution ... The areas closest to the moon’s south pole are pockmarked with impact craters, making it difficult to ...

This little satellite will map Moon water in unprecedented detail ... Once it arrives, Lunar Trailblazer will direct its HVM3 instrument toward the Moon’s South Pole craters. What makes these areas so ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This ...

NASA is among the customers with payloads on Athena but is also launching a ride-sharing mission on the SpaceX rocket, known as Lunar Trailblazer, a spacecraft that will map ... the Moon, even when ...

It will be the first up-close peek inside one of the many shadowed craters dotting both the north ... which will fly separately to the moon over the next several months before entering lunar orbit to ...