There’s ice in them thar craters. The south pole of the moon is home to permanently shadowed regions where ice has been accumulating for billions of years. This illumination map is based on data ...

This is a global view to show the entirety of the South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA), the largest and oldest impact crater on the Moon. For geographic context, the letters label other big craters in ...

to help confirm the presence and location of water. The instrument will work in tandem with NASA/JPL's High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals moon Mapper (HVM3) to produce the most detailed maps ...