Explore: Lunar Environment

A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made

Yale University, S. Clark. Low-Energy Solar Wind Charged Particle Lunar Environment Experiment: Rice University, B. J. O'Brien. Active Seismic Experiment:

Particle Lunar Environment Experiment (CPLEE) measured the protons and electrons of solar origin reaching the Moon. The package also included a Lunar Atmosphere

micrometeoroid flux, and lunar environment until May 30, 1966. A follow-on mission, Luna 11, was launched on August 24, 1966, and studied lunar gravitational anomalies

substantial natural resources which could be exploited in the future. Potential lunar resources may encompass processable materials such as volatiles and minerals

The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15

The search for the presence of lunar water has attracted considerable attention and motivated several recent lunar missions, largely because of water's

exploration of the Moon beginning in 1959. The first partially successful lunar mission was Luna 1 in January 1959, which became the first probe to escape

the Earth for study of the long-term exposure effects of the harsh lunar environment on human-made objects and materials. Although space probes have returned

are near the lunar south pole where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to