ShadowCam is flying aboard South Korea's first moon mission.
, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter . It is one of six science payloads aboard Danuri, which launched back in August 2022 and arrived in lunar orbit in mid-December. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute has already released Danuri's
from lunar orbit, and now ShadowCam is showing off its capabilities with an incredible test image of a permanently shadowed region in Shackleton crater.The top fifth of the image shows the base of the steep wall of Shackleton crater, with the lower portions displaying the crater floor. At the top, the track of a roughly 16 feet diameter boulder that rolled down the wall of the crater can be seen.
"ShadowCam reveals the interior but none of the rim because the detector is so sensitive that it saturates whenever viewing terrain directly illuminated by sunlight," Mark Robinson of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration said in the statement. In this annotated version of the image the arrow indicates the path of a 16-foot diameter boulder that rolled down the steeply sloping crater wall and came to rest on the floor.
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