That's the region of Shackleton Crater imaged by ShadowCam. Yeah, it's pretty phenomenal. A portion of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's first image acquired in 2009.

Along with the mosaic image of Shackleton Crater, National Geographic released a topographical map of the lunar south pole showing potential Artemis 3 landing sites in the region. Get the Space ...

Shackleton Crater pops from the moon’s South Pole, as if a round cookie cutter were just punched into the rocks, in a gorgeous new image that shows portions of the lunar surface that are ...

The upcoming Chang’e 7 mission, scheduled for launch in 2026, is targeting a landing site on the Shackleton crater in the Moon’s south pole, according to a recent paper published in National ...

When a NASA spacecraft passes over Shackleton Crater on the moon and peers in, it sees this: a sea of blackness and nothing more. This 13-mile-wide crater lies close to the moon’s south pole.

Shackleton Crater, named for Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, is permanently shadowed inside.Most images of this area of the moon show a dark void, but ShadowCam can see into the crater's ...

The above image is one of the first ever taken by ShadowCam, displaying the shadowed wall and floor of Shackleton crater near the Moon’s south pole.

Shackleton crater makes for a fun first test of ShadowCam because it was also the first portion of the Moon imaged by LROC. That first LROC image showed the illuminated rim of Shackleton but none ...

ShadowCam's evocative new view shows part of Shackleton crater near the moon's South Pole. ASU geologist Mark Robinson, ShadowCam principal investigator, described what we're seeing in a statement ...

Both the Intuitive Machines 2 (IM-2), named after the US company that built it, and China’s Chang’e 7 probe will drill up to one metre (3.3 feet) below the surface near the Shackleton crater ...

Their robot, designed to explore Shackleton crater on the moon's south pole, took the top honor in NASA's Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.