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Volcanoes in Lacus Mortis | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
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German instrument to study Moon's eternal shadows with private mission
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| | On 22 February 2024, the US 'New Space' company Intuitive Machines became the first private company to land on the Moon with its IM-1 Odysseus mission. The landing site is located around 800 kilometres north of the lunar South Pole, east of the Malapert A crater. According to Intuitive Machines, the landing took place just 1500 metres from the intended landing site, meaning that Odysseus is located in the south of the South Pole-Aitken impact basin which measures over 2000 kilometres in diameter. The exact landing coordinates are 80.13 degrees South and 1.44 degrees East. The lander is on a surface at an incline of 12 degrees and topographical height of 2579 metres above the reference 'selenoid' - a modelled 'lunar surface' with identical gravitational pull.
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Apollo 11: Second look | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
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Lunar Vertex: Solving Mysteries Swirling Around the Moon's Magnetic Regions | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labora...
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| | Scientists believe that so-called magnetic anomalies hold clues to conditions on the Moon and other worlds throughout the solar system. To find out, APL leads a project not just to visit the most famous of these areas on the lunar surface but to drive right across it.
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Bench Crater | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
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| A beautiful bench crater formed in melt trapped on a crater wall terrace. NAC M185961318R, image width 520 m [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].