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Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.

Many of the lunar maria are the sites of enormous ... Meanwhile, the stars on the map highlight young, smaller impact craters on top of Mare Orientale and their ejecta debris that has been ...

But while we can see the numerous craters on the Moon, determining their age was not possible until the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and its thermal radiometer, Deviner. “One thing [LRO’s ...

some with central ‘pimples’, closely resembling lunar craters. In the present work, we have repeated this experiment (Fig. 1). We have also put a quantity of dry powder (sand, salt ...

There are thousands of lunar craters that can be seen and enjoyed with a telescope. But some are prominent enough to be seen by smaller instruments such as binoculars. As the phase of the Moon ...