NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes of Future Moon Crew

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NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moons rugged south polar region. Credit: NASA
NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon’s rugged south polar region. Credit: NASA

NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., collected the data using the facility's Goldstone Solar System Radar located in California's Mojave Desert. The imagery generated by the data has been incorporated into animation depicting the descent to the lunar surface of a future human lunar lander and a flyover of Shackleton Crater.


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