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The landscape is stark, dark and dramatic, formed by a series of eruptions in the last 16,000 years that have stacked layer ...
The moon, Venus and the Pleiades open star cluster will form an unusual celestial triangle on June 22. | Credit: Starry Night ...
The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the moon's northern hemisphere, on Thursday (June 5) at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT).
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Resilience was targeting the top of the Moon, a less treacherous place than the shadowy bottom. The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow ...
They found that out of around 1.3 million craters on the moon with a diameter greater than a kilometre, nearly 6500 were made by asteroids containing commercial quantities of platinum.
Tokyo-based company ispace aims to land its "Resilience" spacecraft in the moon's Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") region on June 5, notching a big milestone for Japan and for commercial spaceflight.