South Polar Region

But with global heating and climate change wreaking havoc on the ice caps of Antarctica, researchers are looking to a new map of the south polar region to better map global warming changes and their effects on subglacial life.

The space agency paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to fly its experiments to the hilly and shadowed south polar region.

The lander, named Odysseus and a bit bigger than a telephone booth, arrived in the south polar region of the moon at 6:23 p.m.

Odysseus is aiming for a spot in the south polar region, a flat plain outside the Malapert A crater.

India triumphed a few days later near the south polar region; it was the country’s second try after crashing in 2019.