{"id":119878,"date":"2024-10-30T01:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119878"},"modified":"2024-10-30T01:29:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T18:29:54","slug":"nasa-narrows-selection-of-moon-landing-sites-for-artemis-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119878","title":{"rendered":"NASA narrows selection of Moon landing sites for Artemis astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">FILE VIDEO: America returned to the Moon on Thursday with the Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander touching down near the unexplored region of the lunar South Pole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/space-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> Starship lander will land with the first people to walk on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/moon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moon<\/a> since 1972 within one of nine sites on the lunar South Pole during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/artemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artemis<\/a> 3 mission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a> announced Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The space agency first revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/lunar-home-base-nasa-astronauts-will-land-in-one-of-these-regions-on-the-moon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bigger group of potential landing areas in August 2022<\/a>. Over the past two years, NASA\u2019s Cross Agency Site Selection Analysis team successfully narrowed the original 13 landing candidates to nine locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">To narrow down the candidate sites, a team of scientists and engineers used data from a NASA spacecraft currently flying around the Moon known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lroc.asu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a> (LRO), along with lunar science research.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/spacex-catches-starship-booster-mechazilla-arms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SPACEX CATCHES STARSHIP BOOSTER IN &#8216;MECHAZILLA ARMS&#8217; IN HISTORIC FIRST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;The Moon\u2019s South Pole is a completely different environment than where we landed during the Apollo missions,&#8221; said NASA&#8217;s Artemis lunar science lead Sarah Noble. &#8220;It offers access to some of the Moon\u2019s oldest terrain, as well as cold, shadowed regions that may contain water and other compounds. Any of these landing regions will enable us to do amazing science and make new discoveries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-image component-center\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/288\/162\/screenshot-2024-10-29-at-1.15.09-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/576\/324\/screenshot-2024-10-29-at-1.15.09-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/720\/405\/screenshot-2024-10-29-at-1.15.09-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1440\/810\/screenshot-2024-10-29-at-1.15.09-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/668\/376\/screenshot-2024-10-29-at-1.15.09-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1336\/752\/screenshot-2024-10-29-at-1.15.09-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1336\" height=\"752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/668\/376\/screenshot-2024-10-29-at-1.15.09-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"title\">This image shows nine candidate landing regions for NASA\u2019s Artemis III mission, with each region containing multiple potential sites for the first crewed landing on the Moon in more than 50 years. The background image of the lunar South Pole terrain within the nine regions is a mosaic of LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) WAC (Wide Angle Camera) images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"><strong> (NASA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Teams considered several factors, including science potential, terrain, lighting and whether the landing trajectory would be compatible with NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/watch\/play-60b5f62c9001519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orion spacecraft<\/a> and SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/spacex-starship-launch-study-kennedy-space-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starship<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The lunar South Pole is an entirely unexplored area of the Moon by humans and contains places that are permanently in darkness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">NASA awarded SpaceX the first Artemis human landing system contact, during which the private company will land the first humans on the Moon since Apollo 17. Artemis 3 is expected to be a week-long mission to the South Pole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The final landing site won&#8217;t be determined until NASA selects its target launch dates for the Artemis III mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/nasa-moon-landing-sites-artemis-astronauts\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE VIDEO: America returned to the Moon on Thursday with the Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander touching down near the unexplored region of the lunar South Pole. 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