lunar pole

[′lü·nər ′pōl]

(astronomy)

A pole of the moon.

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"It's a pretty challenging environment to be drilling in cryogenic conditions in the lunar pole," says Brad Jones, Neptec's program manager of the Artemis Jr.

Celestial mining

Scientists hope the desolate lunar pole will be a fertile hunting ground in their search for water.

NASA bombs moon s surface in search of water

Mitrofanov said that the lunar pole is a most favourable place for future outposts for humans in deep space and emphasized that moon exploration was a step toward future Mars journeys.

Russia to launch multiple robotic missions to moon

Near each lunar pole, the neutron spectrometer detected a drop in the number of neutrons.

Ice on the moon

Washington, March 20 (ANI): If reports are to be believed, the Moon may have bucketloads of water, with a NASA release indicating the amount of water ice detected in the north lunar pole as 600 million metric tons, stashed away in 40 craters.

Moon may have bucketloads of water!

The mountains and crater rims close to the north lunar pole will be seen superimposed on the ringed planet's disk as the Moon glides by--a dramatic sight worth photographing or videotaping if you can.

Saturn's vanishing act

Crisp views of the lunar pole, obtained through a series of filters, showed geologists that some tracts previously thought to be ancient "highlands" were in fact flooded lava plains overlaid by veneers of rubble from later cratering events.

The long road to Jupiter

The space agency said that, following this, a series of orbit maneuvers will be performed on Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft to enable it to enter its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon's surface.

Chandrayaan 2 successfully placed in moon's orbit

Following this, there will be further four orbit maneuvers to make the spacecraft enter into its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moons surface.

India : Chandrayaan-2 Successfully enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory

We know there is trapped water at the lunar poles, where the temperature is as low as -190 degrees Celsius (-310 Fahrenheit)".

Lunar tunnel engineers excited by boring Moon colonies

The probe will undertake a variety of missions, including bringing samples back to Earth, and visiting the lunar poles.

China successfully lands spacecraft on far side of the moon in world first; The Chang'e-4 lunar probe successfully touched down on the 'dark side' of the moon at 2.26am GMT on Thursday

Another strong piece of evidence came from a spectrometer on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that counted neutrons emitted from the lunar poles within a specific energy range, which signifies interaction with hydrogen atoms and thus, most likely, water.