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Korean lunar mission provides a view into the Moon’s dark spaces

South Korea’s first trip to the Moon has been labelled a success.
  1. Alexandra Witze
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South Korea’s first lunar mission has revealed surprising information about the far side of the Moon, among a host of other insights, scientists reported this week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, California. The mission, known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, nicknamed Danuri, launched in August 2022 and has been studying the Moon since beginning its orbit in December of that year.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04005-2

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  • Correction 15 December 2023: An earlier version of this story said that one of the two polarized cameras was not working. Rather, one camera is performing better than the other.

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