A topographic model of the Moon using a color-scale from purple (low) to red (high) based on data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space Agency.

After the loss of competing Russian Luna-25 lander, India's Chandrayaan-3 is set to hunt for water ice in the moon's unexplored south pole region.

A new study using NASA's and DLR's now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the first detailed, wide-area map of water distribution on the Moon.