NASA is working right now to send American astronauts to the surface of the Moon in five years, and the agency has its sights set on a place no humans have ever gone before: the lunar South Pole. Pictured here, in this multi-temporal illumination map, Shackleton crater (19 km diameter) is in the center, the south pole is located approximately at 9 o'clock on its rim. The map was created from images from the camera aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Learn more about our human lunar exploration plans: nasa.gov/moontomars Credits: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University #nasa #moon #southpole #lunarsurface #imaging #lunarreconnaissanceorbiter #spacescience #solarsystem #moontomars #space #exploration #blackandwhite