The spacecraft is set to touch down near the ridge of Shackleton Crater, named after Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, approximately 160 kilometers (99 miles) from the lunar south pole.

Intuitive Machines plans to land the lunar lander near the South Pole of the moon, close to the Shackleton Crater, where it ...

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, will try to land near Shackleton Crater to explore for polar ...

One PSR, the Shackleton Crater, is even being considered as a potential landing site. If the PSRs could serve as microbial freezers, however, then any contamination that humans bring there could ...

focusing on the Shackleton Crater’s illuminated rim and its shadowed regions. This mission is part of China’s broader Lunar Exploration Program, which began with orbiters (Chang’e-1 ...

Traversing and mapping Shackleton Crater, which is one of the largest permanently shadowed regions on the moon, will be particularly challenging due to difficult topography — including steep ...

The 13-kilometer-wide crater is located next to Shackleton crater, a likely destination for future exploration by humans. Spudis’ neighboring crater was also named, for Smithsonian Astrophysical ...