“The SMART-1 south polar maps indicate very exciting targets for science and future exploration, within travel reach from a rover or humans at the south pole”, says Jean-Luc Josset, Principal ...

2026: China's Chang'e 7 mission will send an orbiter, lander, rover and a small flying device to the south pole to hunt for ice. China's Yutu-2 rover, which landed on the far side of the moon in ...

Biodiversity Wildlife: The North Pole, because of its proximity to land and the presence of the Arctic tundra, supports polar bears – alongside seals and numerous bird species. On the other hand ...

But for the Artemis 3 mission and subsequent flights to the surface, NASA planners have settled on what's known as a near-rectilinear halo orbit, or NRHO, a hugely elliptical polar orbit with a ...

Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat overnight between Monday and Tuesday, 114 years after fellow Norwegian and polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.

Commander Byrd’s aim is to explore the South Polar continent. It contains 5,000,000 square miles; is covered, except for its margins during its summer, with thick ice.