Sentences with phrase «land near the south pole»
Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.
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Its second spacecraft aims to land in 2019 near the moon's south pole.
IKI now has five lunar missions planned from 2018 to 2025, starting with Luna - 25, a spacecraft that would land near the moon's south pole.