Planets and Moons  ID: 5013

Artemis III Landing Region Candidates

Visualizations by Ernie Wright Released on August 19, 2022
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This narrated movie introduces Artemis III, reveals the mission's 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole, and briefly discusses some of the criteria that narrowed the selection to these regions.

Music provided by Universal Production Music: Best Days to Come – Matteo Pagamici and Max Molling.

This video can also be viewed on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
NASA has identified 13 regions near the Moon's South Pole as candidate landing regions for Artemis III, the first crewed mission to the Moon's surface since 1972. The visuals here show the locations of all 13 regions.
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In this visualization rendered using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, the view moves from a full disk image of a waning gibbous Moon to a close view of the South Pole, eventually revealing 13 candidate landing regions for the Artemis III mission.
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1 of 6. This is the first of six short segments highlighting individual landing regions. This segment features the Connecting Ridge, Connecting Ridge Extended, and de Gerlache Rim 1 and 2 regions.
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2 of 6. A short segment showing the Haworth and Malapert Massif landing regions.
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3 of 6. A short segment showing the Leibnitz Beta Plateau and Nobile Rim 1 landing regions.
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4 of 6. A short segment showing the Nobile Rim 2 and Amundsen Rim landing regions.
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5 of 6. A short segment showing the Peak Near Shackleton and Faustini Rim A landing regions.
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6 of 6. A short segment showing the de Gerlache-Kocher Massif landing region.

Visualization Credits

David Ladd (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.): Lead Producer
Ernie Wright (USRA): Lead Visualizer
David Ladd (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.): Lead Editor
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Animator
Liam Yanulis: Animator
LK Ward (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Narrator
Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support
Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support
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Mission:
Artemis Program (Human Spaceflight — Moon to Mars)

Data Used:
LRO/LOLA/Digital Elevation Map also referred to as: DEM
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SPICE Ephemerides also referred to as: SPICE Ephemerides
Ephemeris - NASA/JPL
Satellite and planetary ephemerides
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This item is part of these series:
Narrated Movies
The Moon

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Landing Site
SVS >> Moon
SVS >> Hyperwall
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons
SVS >> Artemis