Meanwhile on the Moon... "a little man" has sent back images, and all the souped-up NASA experiments on the lander continue to work.

After launching on 15 February, IntuitiveMachines' Odysseus spacecraft landed on the Moon's South Pole on 22 February and has been transmitting valuable scientific data back to Earth ever since. Odysseus took six NASA payloads with it, and the data will prepare us for future manned exploration of the Moon with Artemis.

This landing was the first U.S. landing on the Moon since Apollo 17 and the first landing as part of our Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which aims to expand the lunar economy to support future crewed Artemis missions.

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This image from the lander's narrow field-of-view camera was taken on 27 February. It shows the spacecraft hardware in the foreground and beyond it the mouth of a 2 billion-year-old lunar crater. It is about 500 metres to the crater's near lip and another 500 metres to the far side. The inky black void stretches above the horizon.