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.
A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious resource for lunar missions - resides on the moon's surface in places such as ...
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will map the Moon’s water, tracking its location, form, and changes. Mission focuses on the Moon’s ...
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 ...
Boulder, we have a problem. A camera to map the moon’s South Pole, which was developed in part at the University of Colorado ...
A robotic NASA spacecraft called Lunar Trailblazer, which launched Wednesday night from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is aiming to provide a detailed map ... of craters in the moon’s polar ...
The bottoms of hundreds of craters at the moon's South Pole ... orbits over a span of several months to position itself to map the surface in detail. It eventually will orbit at an altitude ...