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New Spacecraft Can See Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon

kleton Crater at the lunar south pole is one of the locations on NASA’s shortlist for human exploration with the future Artemis missions. But because craters at the lunar poles -- like Shackleton -- at have areas that are perpetually in shadow, known as permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), we don’t know for sure what lies inside the interior.

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