MoonRise

MoonRise
Moonrise
Operator NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mission type Lander Lunar Science Lunar Sample Return
Satellite of Moon
Launch date October 2016
Carrier rocket Atlas V-531
Launch site Cape Canaveral
Homepage JPL
Moon landing
Date March 2017
Coordinates South Pole–Aitkin Basin

The MoonRise mission focuses on the giant South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon between the Moon's South Pole and Aitken Crater, 16° south of the Moon's equator. This basin measures nearly 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) in diameter and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) in depth. This region is the oldest, deepest, observable impact basin on the Moon and provides a window into the deep crust of the moon and it's past history as a result. The basin is also among the largest recognized impact structures in the Solar System. [1] The mission would be NASA's first unmanned sample return mission.[2]

Moonrise was not selected for the next New Frontiers program launch[3][4], losing out to OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.

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