NASA's Moon Camera Captures Inviting Landing Site in Dark Lunar Crater.

NASA's ShadowCam, a camera designed to detect reflected light, has captured an image of a portion of the Marvin crater, just 16 miles from the moon's south pole. The camera's sensitivity allows it to reveal very dimly lit permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs, which could provide clues about lunar evolution and water trapped as ice in shadowed regions. The high-resolution images collected by ShadowCam could also assist site selection for crewed Artemis missions. ShadowCam is operating aboard the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit in December 2022.