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NASA's Artemis missions
are NASA's plan

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to send people to the
surface of the Moon.

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We'll be sending people
and roving assets

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and scientific equipment

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to, among other things,
answer a lot of

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really compelling
science questions.

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Launch commentator:
And liftoff of Artemis One!

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We rise together, back to
the Moon and beyond.

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Scientists have a lot to
learn about the Moon.

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It's our nearest celestial
neighbor here to Earth.

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So what the Moon has
experienced, we've experienced,

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except here on Earth, we have
things like plate tectonics

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oceans, forests, people
that erase the rock record.

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Whereas on the Moon,
that whole record

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of our planet's history,

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of the Moon's history is
just kind of waiting

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there at the surface
for us to explore.

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The South Pole is
specifically interesting

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for a couple key reasons.

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We think there are volatiles at
the South Pole of the Moon

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that are not present
near the equator.

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Things like water and
water ice that are

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trapped in the lunar regolith,

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that can easily
become untrapped

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from that lunar regolith

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and scientists can
scoop up and study.

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The South Pole-Aitken
Basin is one of the

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oldest and largest

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impact basins in the
solar system,

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and if we can get
the right rock

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from the South Pole-Aitken
Basin and bring it back

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to our labs here on Earth,
we can use that sample

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to constrain the entire evolution
of our solar system

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and really understand the
timing of how the Moon

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and our planet and the entire
solar system evolved.