SITE INVESTIGATION

NASA announces landing site location for lunar drill

Location announced by NASA for site of future lunar ice drilling programme

 An illustration of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander with a depiction of NASA’s Polar Resources Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) attached to the spacecraft on the surface of the Moon

An illustration of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander with a depiction of NASA’s Polar Resources Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) attached to the spacecraft on the surface of the Moon

NASA data from spacecraft orbiting the Moon indicate this location, referred to as the Shackleton connecting ridge, could have ice below the surface. The area receives sufficient sunlight to power a lander...

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