Artificial intelligence has been used by a global research team led by ETH Zurich to study the permanently darkened areas of the Moon.
Future lunar missions will benefit from the knowledge they have obtained about the region's physical characteristics in order to locate suitable locations.
On August 26, the research was published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Additionally, this study was carried out as part of the NASA Artemis I programme.
It's a frequent myth that the Moon has a dark side, claims Science Alert. Because of the Moon's revolution, its equator always receives steady sunlight. The Moon's polar regions, which contain high walls that shield the crater bottom from intense solar radiation, deep craters, and pocks at high latitudes are exceptions to this rule.
There could potentially be a lot of undiscovered and unknown objects on the moon, including "water," according to scientists.
Ice would easily sublimate into a gas in the vacuum of space at greater temperatures. Water vapour and other flammable chemicals, however, may get stuck or freeze on the lunar soil due to the intense cold.
The LPI-JSC Center for Lunar and Science and Exploration's investigation of potential Artemis landing locations and surface exploration alternatives led to the findings presented in the new report.
The team has already looked into more than a dozen potential Artemis landing locations. The study's conclusions might immediately affect next missions like the Intuitive Machines Mission 2, which will be carried out by a start-up for profit.
This robotic mission will gather and study the first soil samples from the Moon's shadowed south pole before astronauts land there in the spring of 2023.
