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 ...

The South Pole on the moon contains shadowed regions ... The LPI looks at photographic imagery from satellites orbiting the moon and makes maps of the temperature profiles of the whole region.

If you look at a map of all the touchdowns ... Secondly, only India's Chandrayaan-3 has braved the moon's south pole, where cliffs and boulders make it harder to find a suitable landing site ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the area near the moon's south pole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...