Moon South Pole

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UCF Scientist’s Unique Camera Will Investigate the Moon’s South Pole

A thermal infrared camera aboard a lunar lander scheduled to head to the south pole of the Moon as early as 2022 could help determine which regions on the lunar surface have water trapped in them. Kerri Donaldson Hanna, an assistant physics professor at the University of Central Florida, is working with University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor Paul Hayne on NASA’s Lunar Compact InfraRed…