NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. First, Lunar ...

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The new Moon map, also using Nasa data ... (1,000km) area of the lunar surface to a scale of one to 1,470,000. The Apollo 11 mission saw American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land ...

Within its rings is a crumbling surface originally ... other impact basins on the moon that have become much more degraded than the younger Orientale. "We chose to map Orientale basin because ...

The intense coloring, present in most gravity maps, indicates variations in gravitational pull across the moon's surface. Red marks areas of high gravity, while dark blue shows the lowest pull ...

The optical device, a much more compact version of the retroreflector originally left on the Moon during the Apollo 11 ...