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A Light Bulb Overhead
Colored to emphasize slope, with steeper slopes in red and yellow, and shallower slopes in blue, this digital terrain model (DTM) reveals the depths of a volcanic crater called Schrödinger G. The image merges an LROC Narrow Angle Camera ...
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ShadowCam PDS Release - June 2025
Footprint plot of the ShadowCam images in the June 2025 release at the North pole [NASA/KARI/ASU/Intuitive Machines] The ShadowCam team released another three months of observations to PDS on 27 May 2025. This release includes ...
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ShadowCam
Seeing in the Shadows
ShadowCam is based on the successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) and is approximately 200 times more sensitive than the current NAC, which will allow scientists to see into the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) surrounding the Moon's poles.

What are PSRs?
Permanently Shadowed Regions
Permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) may be the most valuable real estate in the Solar System, with the potential for cold-trapped volatiles, which could provide essential resources to enable future exploration of the Moon and beyond.

The Mission