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Shackleton Crater on the Moon

Water on the moon would change a lot, and one of the best places to search for it are in the dark shadows of craters at the southern pole, where sunlight never directly gets to.

This detailed image of the inside of the crater shows some of the dark areas taken by NASA's shadowcam onboard the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter.

Towards the top, a boulder has rolled down into the crater, leaving behind a trail in the moon dust.

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Video from KARI (the South Korean space agency) about the agency's upcoming lunar probes. The first one is currently scheduled to launch in late 2018.

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NASA Selects ‘ShadowCam’ to Fly on Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter

NASA has selected an instrument developed by investigators at Arizona State University and Malin Space Science Systems as a U.S. contribution to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s (KARI) first lunar exploration mission, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). ShadowCam will address Strategic Knowledge Gaps, or lack of information required to reduce risk, increase effectiveness, and improve the designs of future human and robotic missions. ShadowCam joins four KARI-developed instruments on KPLO.

KARI, headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea, provided NASA with about 33 pounds (15 kilograms) of payload mass aboard the KPLO, which is scheduled to launch into lunar orbit in December 2018. In September 2016, NASA issued a solicitation seeking science instruments that could increase our understanding of the distribution of volatiles, such as water, including the movement of such resources toward permanently shadowed regions and how they become trapped there.

“Permanently shadowed regions have been a mystery because the perpetually dark interiors are difficult to image and existing research offers varying interpretations regarding the distribution of volatiles within these cold regions,” says Jason Crusan, Director of NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. “Future missions in deep space will be safer and more affordable if we have the capability to harvest lunar resources, and ShadowCam has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the quality and abundance of those resources in these regions.”

​ShadowCam will map the reflectance within the permanently shadowed regions to search for evidence of frost or ice deposits. The instrument’s optical camera is based on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera, but is 800 times more sensitive, allowing it to obtain high-resolution, high signal-to-noise imaging of the moon’s permanently shadowed regions. ShadowCam will observe the PSRs monthly to detect seasonal changes and measure the terrain inside the craters, including the distribution of boulders.

“We are pleased with the addition of NASA’s ShadowCam instrument,” says Dr. Seok Weon Choi, Director of the Lunar Exploration Program Office at KARI. “KPLO is an exciting mission and will reveal much about the moon for us and our spacefaring partners.”

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Первый южнокорейский космический аппарат «Данури» достиг Луны

Первый в истории южнокорейский лунный зонд KPLO, также имеющий второе официальное название &mdash... Читать дальше »

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SpaceX sends South Korea satellite toward the Moon

SpaceX sends South Korea's #KPLO mission toward the Moon.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credit: Theresa Cross / Spaceflight Insider SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to send the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, KPLO, to the Moon. (more…)

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