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Journey to the Bottom of the Moon

Take a ride on a lunar lander to the rim of the Shackleton Crater

Using the highest-resolution mapping data of the moon's south pole ever obtained, NASA has created an animation that shows what it would look like to descend to the rim of the Shackleton Crater—which has been proposed as a landing site for a future human mission.

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