Earlier this week, the ShadowCam team released its first image, which reveals a wall and the floor of Shackleton Crater near the south pole of the Moon. At first glance, there's nothing remarkable ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon’s south pole.

The scientists investigated Shackleton Crater, which sits almost directly on the moon's south pole.The crater, named after the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, is more than 12 miles wide (19 ...

Here's the official photo description per NASA and NatGeo: "Shrouded in permanent darkness, the interior of Shackleton crater near the moon's south pole is revealed in this stunning mosaic.

Shackleton Crater pops from the moon’s South Pole, as if a round cookie cutter were just punched into the rocks, in a gorgeous new image that shows portions of the lunar surface that are ...

Shackleton Crater, named for Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, is permanently shadowed inside.Most images of this area of the moon show a dark void, but ShadowCam can see into the crater's ...

Signs of Water Discovered in Moon’s Shackleton Crater. By Ben Johnson and Slate Video Staff. June 21, 2012 7:15 PM. New data suggest the moon’s dark side craters may hold water ice.

The upcoming Chang’e 7 mission, scheduled for launch in 2026, is targeting a landing site on the Shackleton crater in the Moon’s south pole, according to a recent paper published in National ...

Shackleton crater, Moon. Clockwise from top left: topography from laser altimetry, image from SMART-1 mission, lighting map (brighter is longer periods of illumination) from the LRO Camera, Mini ...

Shackleton crater is very large at 2 miles deep and more than 12 miles wide. The reason the crater has been studied so intently for ice deposits is that the interior of the crater is permanently dark.

ShadowCam's evocative new view shows part of Shackleton crater near the moon's South Pole. ASU geologist Mark Robinson, ShadowCam principal investigator, described what we're seeing in a statement ...

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.