ShadowCam • Seeing in the Shadows

Footprint plot of the ShadowCam images in the December 2025 release at the North pole [NASA/KARI/ASU/Intuitive Machines]

The ShadowCam team released three months of observations to PDS on 21 December 2025. This release includes 5,004 observations from October through December 2024, totaling 6.23 TiB of data. This release also includes more derived products including mosaics, DTMs, and updated vector data.

Footprint plot of the ShadowCam images in the December 2025 release at the South pole [NASA/KARI/ASU/Intuitive Machines]

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO, also known as Danuri) has been in orbit around the Moon since the end of December 2022. This release includes collar image sequences, dark calibration, Earth shine experiment, equatorial analogs, and more!

Data products in this release include raw and calibrated observations. Each observation also includes several derived products such as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs), histogram CSV files, and smear maps to help view the data or interpret the observation more easily. Users can find more details on data formats, the ShadowCam instrument, and calibration in the document collection within the archive.

This release also includes derived products, including mosaics, DTMs, and vector products.

In addition to the PDS archive, we release the ShadowCam PDS dataset into the data portal operated by the Science Operations Center (SOC). This portal lets you search this and other datasets the SOC manages using a map and an advanced search interface. ShadowCam observations in the data portal allow full-resolution viewing of all data, context maps, interactive histograms, and dynamic stretching of the 32-bit data directly from your web browser. You can also download all available products to process or use on your systems.