A Nasa released an image made by the IM-2 Nova-C landing module, called Athena, Launched to the moon last Wednesday (26). In the selfie made by the instrument, Planet Earth appears from the background.
The expected to end next Thursday, March 6, in Mons Mouton, a plateau near the South Lunar Pole. The intended is in the central region of one of the possible landing areas of the Artemis 3 mission.
The region is considered crucial for the current lunar space race, as scientists believe it is rich in water ice deposits, a resource that can be converted to breathable air, drinking water or even fuel for rockets.
Athena was built by Intuitive Machines, a company based in Houston who, so far, is the only one in the private sector on Earth to have a safe landing on the moon.
In the Astronomy Picture of The Day project, the US agency selects an image a day to portray an extraordinary scene related to space-like one in the sky and crossing the sky and disappearing behind a hill.
