Lunar Science and Exploration Highlights: Recent Updates

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO):

• Laser Instrument on NASA’s LRO Successfully ‘Pings’ Indian Moon Lander

• Shrinking Moon Causing Moonquakes and Faults Near Lunar South Pole

• NASA’s LRO Images Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus Lander

• NASA’s LRO Observes 2024 Solar Eclipse Shadow

• New Evidence Adds to Findings Hinting at Network of Caves on Moon

• NASA, JAXA Bounce Laser Beam Between Moon’s Surface and Lunar Orbit

Artemis

• NASA, United Arab Emirates Announce Artemis Lunar Gateway Airlock

• NASA Selects First Lunar Instruments for Artemis Astronaut Deployment

• NASA Goddard to Build Quake Detector for Artemis III Moon Landing

• NASA’s Artemis IV: Building First Lunar Space Station

• NASA Tests Technology, Practices Artemis Moonwalks in Arizona Desert

• NASA Ships Moon Rocket Stage Ahead of First Crewed Artemis Flight

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

• NASA Collects First Surface Science in Decades via Commercial Moon Mission

• NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll

• NASA Technology Helps Guard Against Lunar Dust

• NASA to Measure Moonquakes With Help From InSight Mars Mission

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Highlights from 2023