This striking composite shot of the lunar south pole appears in National Geographic Magazine's special space issue out on Sept. 19. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An annotated version of the opening image, the arrow indicates a boulder track. Faint horizontal lines are camera artifacts that will eventually be removed once we have obtained a robust inflight ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

A new NASA instrument allows researchers to view the bright and permanently shadowed portions of the moon’s Shackleton Crater at the same time Shackleton Crater pops from the moon’s South Pole, as if ...

When a NASA spacecraft passes over Shackleton Crater on the moon and peers in, it sees this: a sea of blackness and nothing more. This 13-mile-wide crater lies close to the moon’s south pole. Here, ...

Thanks to two lunar orbiting cameras working together on the moon's Shackleton Crater, NASA has been able to release a mosaic showing "unprecedented detail" of the region. Shackleton Crater is in the ...

NASA’s ShadowCam has been flying around the Moon for nearly six months, strapped to a Korean lunar orbiter. The hypersensitive camera has been capturing beautifully detailed images of the Moon’s ...

The new image reveals the Shackleton Crater in greater detail than previously possible, giving us a closer look at the lunar south pole. reading time 2 minutes NASA released a new mosaic of an impact ...

Images of the permanently shadowed wall and floor of Shackleton Crater captured by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) (left) and ShadowCam (right). Each panel shows an area that is 5,906 feet ...

ICY MOON: Mapping the floor of the Moon’s Shackleton Crater in what NASA describes as unprecedented detail, agency scientists and university researchers have calculated that unusually bright laser ...