A permanently shadowed crater is a depression on a body in the Solar System within which lies a point that is always in darkness. As of 2019, there are...

probes found evidence of water, especially of water ice in some permanently-shadowed craters on the Moon; and in 2018 water ice was confirmed in multiple...

form of ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. It was successful in confirming water in the southern lunar crater Cabeus. It was...

confirmed the strong correlation of radar reflectivity with permanently shadowed craters, as shown on the maps to the right. Chao Meng-Fu's ice may have...

life-support, oxygen and rocket propellant feedstock. Volatiles from permanently shadowed craters may provide methane (CH 4), ammonia (NH 3), carbon dioxide (CO...

spacecraft MESSENGER found evidence of water ice on Mercury, within permanently shadowed craters not reached by sunlight. As a result of the thin atmosphere,...

southernmost region of the crater floor remain permanently cloaked in shadow. From the Earth the crater appears on the northern lunar limb, and is seen...

of the occurrence of water ice in permanently shadowed areas around it. The lunar south pole region features craters that are unique in that the near-constant...

rover would have been tasked with prospecting for lunar resources in permanently shadowed areas of lunar south pole region, especially by mapping the distribution...

many craters, particularly the bottoms of many polar craters, are permanently shadowed, these "craters of eternal darkness" have extremely low temperatures...

predicted to exist since the early nineteenth century. The shadowed portion of the crater was imaged with the Terrain Camera of the Japanese SELENE spacecraft...

crater of Kait is selected as its prime meridian. Ceres has an axial tilt of 4°, small enough for its polar regions to contain permanently shadowed craters...

bodies of water. They are large areas formed by lava that covered up old craters and then cooled, becoming smooth, basalt rock. The near side of the Moon...

several times the diameter of their originating crater, and are often accompanied by small secondary craters formed by larger chunks of ejecta. Ray systems...

mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. LCROSS was launched together with...

the mission was to search for water ice and signs of life in permanently shadowed craters near Ceres' north pole. However, with new information from the...

objectives include fixed-point landings. In situ observations of the permanently shadowed crater will be made by the mini-hopping probe, which will carry water...

Mapping Project (LAMP) The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project peers into permanently shadowed craters in search of water ice, using ultraviolet light generated by...

Tooley Crater is approximately 7 km wide, close to the south pole of the Moon. It is located within a permanently shadowed area of Shoemaker Crater. It is...

Valleys Volcanic features Domes Calderas Lava tubes Craters List Ray systems Permanently shadowed craters South Pole–Aitken basin Soil swirls Rilles Wrinkle...

discovered a possibility of both water ice and organic compounds in permanently shadowed craters in Mercury's north pole. The mission was scheduled to end sometime...

other, they are evidence of compressional stress in planetary crust. Lunar crater Krieger and vicinity, showing wrinkle ridges in the surrounding mare and...

Haworth's position near the lunar south pole, large amounts of the crater are permanently shadowed regions. These regions are very cold; many are believed to...

prominent impact crater located near the northwestern limb of the Moon. It lies just to the northwest of the somewhat larger Babbage. The crater has an oval...

Moon's synchronous rotation, one side of the Moon (the "near side") is permanently turned towards Earth, and the other side, the "far side", mostly cannot...

impacts had accumulated there. Erlanger is one of the Moon's permanently shadowed craters. The crater was named by the International Astronometrical Union on...

shaped the sample. Using shock wave models, they estimated the resulting crater to be between 3 and 32 kilometers wide, depending on the impact angle. The...

astronomers use portable observing equipment and travel to sites along the shadow path limits. The goal is to report the UTC of each event as accurately as...

side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Hermite. There may exist a large amount of water ice within Hermite A's permanently shadowed region (PSR)...

Bechet is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. Most of the crater floor is in permanent shadow. Its name was adopted by the International...