The company included an image taken from the lander, named Athena, looking back towards Earth and the lunar horizon ... The IM-2 landed in the lunar south pole region, roughly 820 feet from ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is giving us some incredible views from lunar orbit ahead of its March 6 touchdown attempt.

Chandrayaan-3, however, was the first mission to land in a high-latitude polar region of the moon, 630 km from the south pole, and scientists ... craters — dug up when debris from an impact ...

A private company will attempt to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive Machines looks to follow up Firefly Aerospace ... but this time on the south pole.

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the ...

limited communications with Earth and uncharted, rugged terrain. Athena’s landing was the closest a spacecraft has come to the south pole, just 100 miles (160 kilometers) away. That’s where ...

The lunar south pole is of particular interest ... in the effort to eventually set up a permanent base on the moon. The Athena mission, in particular, will look for the presence of possible ...

Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole.

A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday (February 26, 2025), aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole this time ... launched landers toward Earth’s sidekick.

IM-2, which will attempt its landing later in March, is targeting the moon’s south pole, a region ... will attempt to burrow up to a meter into the ground and look for any ice and other ...

"We're looking to show ... specifically at the south pole that it works, because we would like our astronauts to be able to walk far from their landers to go pick up scientific samples or takes ...