Mar
14
The lunar south pole region is considered a good location on the moon to establish a base station and potential settlement. The primary reasons for this include nearly full-time solar illumination on polar mountain peaks, deep craters that contain frozen water, and an ability to avoid the extreme temperature swings that a habitat would be …
Feb
21
NASA has named craters in the lunar Apollo Basin, part of the Aitken Basin region, after the astronauts lost in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. Below is a labeled photo of this region on the Moon. Apollo is a roughly 500 km-diameter impact basin located toward the center of the the giant South Pole-Aitken basin …