NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer scouts Moon’s surface ahead of astronauts- Fast Company

Artemis II will use NASA capabilities Space launch systeman extremely powerful rocket that will allow man to explore space beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. crew of four people will travel to Orion spacecraftwhich the agency launched around the Moon and successfully returned in time Artemis I mission.

But until Artemis II, NASA will send two missions to explore the surface of the lunar south pole in search of resources that could support human spaceflight and make new scientific discoveries possible.

Planetary geologists like me interested in data from Lunar Pathfinder, one of these two reconnaissance missions. The data for this mission will be help us understand how water is formed and behaves on rocky planets and moons.