The Plan B would drill at an 85 degree angle into an area of mine shaft that is used as a mechanical workshop.

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Under Plan B, a hole is being drilled at a roughly 80-degree angle into an area of the mine shaft that is used as a mechanical workshop.

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His plan requires the probe to be accelerated, using its remaining fuel, and then steered at a shallow angle into one of the permanently shadowed regions near the south lunar pole.

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