# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNIcb2g2Gj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15342995-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/75b66c9c9d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-05-08T14:38:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

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: 
www.nasa.gov/moontomars 
Credits: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

#nasa #moon #southpole #lunarsurface #imaging #lunarreconnaissanceorbiter #spacescience #solarsystem #moontomars #space #exploration #blackandwhite

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## Tags

lunarsurface, nasa, space, moon, moontomars, blackandwhite, southpole, lunarreconnaissanceorbiter, exploration, solarsystem, imaging, spacescience

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