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Intuitive Machines' private Athena probe lands near lunar south pole — but it may have tipped over
Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...
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Watch Intuitive Machines land private Athena probe at the lunar south pole
Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.
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Purifying moon water: UK scientists' 'lunar microwave' beats extreme conditions
Naicker Scientific's SonoChem device, using microwaves and ultrasound, won the Aqualunar challenge by purifying water from ...
Chang'e-6 samples suggest 4.25-billion-year-old impact formed moon's South Pole–Aitken basin
Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...
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Private spacecraft lands on Moon - but may be on its side
A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the "correct ...
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Finding water-ice on Moon: Chandrayaan-3 unlocks some 'hot' secrets
Chandrayaan-3's Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) achieved unprecedented in-situ temperature measurements at the Moon's south pole ... and potential water-ice deposits, which ...
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Intuitive Machines probe is on the moon near lunar south pole
On board is a drill built by NASA that will drill about three feet below the lunar surface to check for volatile compounds, including water. Some craters near the south pole of the moon are in ...
NASA Alert! Athena Moon lander set to land near the South Pole today
NASA's Athena Moon lander will land near the Moon's South Pole today. This mission aims to gain insights into lunar resources like water ice. Athena's ...
Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came less than ...
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Watch Intuitive Machines land private Athena probe at the lunar south pole today
Credit: NASA/Science Visualization Studio Athena is headed for Mons Mouton, a region near the moon's south pole. Scientists believe that water ice deposits and other resources can be found in ...
Private Lunar Lander May Have Fallen Over While Touching Down Near the Moon's South Pole
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...
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Water mining on the moon may be easier than expected, India's Chandrayaan-3 lander finds
Water extracted from ice could ... are similar to those proposed for future lunar south pole landing missions, including with NASA's Artemis moon missions, the researchers write in their new ...