NASA's LROC shuttered the view on March 3, 2023, when the spacecraft was about 106 miles beyond the Shackleton crater.
Last year, NASA identified 13 candidate regions near the lunar South Pole to send astronauts back to the Moon. One was the Malapert massif region, which formed about four billion years ago and is the "largest and oldest impact basin on the Moon," the Center for Lunar Science and ExplorationAccording to the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, "the south pole occurs amid several mountains, called massifs on the Moon.
"Several of the proposed sites within the regions are located among some of the oldest parts of the Moon, and together with the permanently shadowed regions, provide the opportunity to learn about the history of the Moon through previously unstudied lunar materials," Sarah Noble, Artemis lunar science lead for NASA’s Planetary Science Division, said in a release from August 2022.
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