August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... as Luna Resurs. This spacecraft will perform the first landing at the South Pole of the Moon, in the Aitken basin, to conduct regolith analyses. The European contributions are PILOT - a sensor package for precise landing navigation - and...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... and protocols prior to their use at Mars. In particular, the return of lunar samples from the south pole Aitken Basin meshes the accomplishment of a key Decadal Survey science objective with the complementary development of cis-lunar and...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... 27 will focus on the possibility of lunar water ice and mineral extraction at the Moon’s south pole at the Aitken Basin. ESA is contributing the PROSPECT drill system to penetrate two metres down to collect data on water ice, minerals...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
...) mission which found an anomalous and significant mass of dense material beneath the Moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin. The mysterious mass which is presumed to be metallic in nature and is five times larger than the Big Island...
