NASA REVEALED 13 POSSIBLE LANDING SPOTS ON THE MOON

Mon 22 August 2022:

NASA revealed that it has chosen 13 potential landing sites from the Moon’s south pole for its future mission Artemis III.

Artemis III is a project that aims to send astronauts to the Moon in 2025.

“Selecting these regions means we are one giant leap closer to returning humans to the Moon for the first time since Apollo,” Mark Kirasich, deputy associate administrator for the Artemis Campaign Development Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said.

NASA said that each of these areas is ‘located within six degrees of latitude of the lunar South Pole’, a region where it is believed that water ice might exist in the hidden craters, with uninterrupted access to the sunlight during a period of six and a half days, a time Artemis III mission is expected to take.

More over 50 years ago, Apollo missions reached the Moon’s equatorial regions, where the days with sunshine are longer, lasting up to two weeks.

The North Pole, on the other hand, can only receive a few days of sunlight, which increases the difficulty of the missions while also limiting the time periods during which NASA may conduct launches.

“Several of the proposed sites within the regions are located among some of the oldest parts of the Moon, and together with the permanently shadowed regions, provide the opportunity to learn about the history of the Moon through previously unstudied lunar materials,” Sarah Noble, Artemis lunar science lead for NASA’s Planetary Science Division, said.

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