Now just days away, meteorologists have a good grasp of what regions will likely have good viewing opportunities during the ...

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is ...

Athena is targeting highland terrain about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole, where it will deploy three ...

If you're going on a hike or just curious about a specific place's altitudes, Google Maps makes it easy to find the elevation for many locations. Google Maps doesn't show the elevation for all ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

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The bottoms of hundreds of craters at the moon's South Pole ... months to position itself to map the surface in detail. Eventually, it will orbit at an altitude of roughly 100 km and collect ...

A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston ... During the coast down to lower altitude, the lander presumably used its cameras and lasers in a terrain relative navigation ...

Elevation will likely determine how much precipitation people see in their area. The snow level was forecast at 500 feet above sea level earlier in the morning, rising to 4,000 feet this afternoon.

This aims to map sources of water on the moon to shed light on the lunar water cycle and to guide future robotic and human missions. Once in orbit, the spacecraft—weighing 200kg and about the ...

However, LuGRE’s achievements didn’t only begin after touchdown on the moon. On January 21, the instrument broke NASA’s record for highest altitude GNSS signal acquisition at 209,900 miles ...