NASA picks landing site at the moon's south pole for ice-drilling robot

[staarker]

NASA has set its sights on the moon's south pole in its quest for ice.

This week, the space agency and the company Intuitive Machines announced Shackleton Crater landing site at the south pole of the moon for a small lander set to launch next year. The location is called the "Shackleton connecting ridge" and NASA data hint at ice lurking below the surface, the agency said in a statement on Nov. 3.

The robotic mission includes NASA's Polar Resources Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) that requires solar power and a view of Earth for communications. The ridge zone should provide both, NASA said.
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[ricky1874]

About time we started doing something on the Moon. I grew up with all kinds of amazing images of how the future would look. I've been disappointed so far. Hopefully in the latter part of my life I will really see some major advancements in human technology and space exploration.