These pictures will be posted on the website and used as a stepping stone for students to learn more about the Lunar surface, the history of the Moon, and potential landing sites for future Moon missions.

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If the moon harbours ice, for example, measuring the amount of it at different depths could enable planetary scientists to work out the rate at which comets smashed into the lunar surface over its history, and that knowledge could then be plugged into models of the formation of the solar system.

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On April 11, it will have been forty-three years since the Apollo 13 lunar mission became one of the greatest death-defying adventures in history.

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