NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace.

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crash site of Japan's Resilience moon lander. The ispace lander aimed for a historic landing in Ma ...

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is equipped with a 0.25-meter Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) which offers views of the Moon at incredible detail. Its data has also been of immense value to other ...

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace's Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025. — Photo from ...

A faint halo around the area was formed by the lunar dirt kicked up by the impact. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the scene last week. The crash was the second failure in two years for ...

The Power of the ShadowCam. The ShadowCam is designed to be more than 200 times more sensitive than other imagers, such as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Narrow Angle Camera that is on ...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images of Mare Imbrium. (Morgan et al., JGR Planets, 2016) They then simulated a large impact and the cloud of plasma that would result as the force of the impact ...