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.

It is a bold move, as the US also has ambitions to establish bases at the Moon’s south pole — the Shackleton crater is prime real estate. A later Chinese mission, Chang'e 8 (currently planned ...

A new unmanned mission to the Moon will use high-speed wifi so its half dozen rovers ... The lunar surface can be as hot as 121˚C in daylight and plummets to -246˚C inside the Shackleton Crater.

Athena will land very close to the ridge of the Shackleton crater, a region that is known as a peak of eternal sunshine.The Sun is low on the horizon but it is always visible, never setting ...

With a four-day launch window that opens on 26 February, it aims to land on 6 March near Shackleton Crater, in the all-important south polar region of the moon where there may be ice in the ...

The new image, taken on Feb. 5 by Andrew James McCarthy, frames the space station with Shackleton Crater, a famous landmark on the moon near its south pole.The site is a potential future landing ...

NASA's Lunar Navigation Challenge seeks ideas for a low-tech orienteering device and creative solutions for accessing and mapping the moon's Shackleton Crater.

NASA, preparing to establish a permanent presence on the moon, ... (the literal south pole, located inside the rim of Shackleton crater, is at 90 degrees south latitude).

These exploits and their scientific returns were crucial to unlocking the history of the Moon - and by extension, the history of our solar system. ... (PRIME-1) near Shackleton Crater.

They’re not going to be like Shackleton Crater where you may have a good water potential but it’s unobtainium, because you have a [2.8-mile] 4½-kilometer downward trek at a 30º slope at ...