NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this shot of Intuitive ... ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole. This orientation prevented the lander's solar ...

And we now have views of the lander and its crater grave from on high, courtesy of NASA's sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). You may like Private Intuitive Machines moon lander ...

NASA launched a lunar orbiter Wednesday night that will ... generating "spectral fingerprints" that cover the entire Moon, including even the deep craters at the South Pole. Its Lunar Thermal ...

But given that lunar spacecraft are solar-powered, how do they survive when they're cut off from the sun? For NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting the moon since 2009 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral carrying NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer orbiter ... of hundreds of craters at the moon’s South Pole, for instance ...

(AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill ... but a sweep by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in the coming days will confirm its position and orientation ...

Houston-based company Intuitive Machines put its Athena spacecraft on the moon ... crater-mapping algorithm performed as expected. Until Athena’s cameras, as well as the Lunar Reconnaissance ...

25, 2025 — On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of ... analysis of data from NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) mission.

Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ... back to the moon: Much knowledge about the solar system can be gleaned from the moon, especially in the eternally shadowed craters in the ...

Intuitive Machines says the lunar reconnaissance orbiter camera will take ... which is designed to leap and fly across the Moon's surface to reach a large crater that is in permanent shade.