The very mention of Clavius, a vast lunar crater, brings to mind spectacular images from "2001: A Space Odyssey"— landing spacecraft, alien monoliths, and more. Notably, though, Clavius is not ...

Representative image This research builds on earlier discoveries, such as the detection of water in the sunlit Clavius Crater by NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA ...

In 2020, NASA announced the discovery of water on sunlit portions of the Clavius crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth on the Moon's southern hemisphere, based on infrared ...

Clavius Crater is where the adventure begins in 2001: A Space Odyssey. This large lunar base boasts an impressive spaceport, complete with a petal-protected shuttle landing pad that drops down ...

The water molecules are in Clavius crater, a large crater in the moon's southern hemisphere. To detect the molecules, SOFIA used a special infrared camera that can discern between water's specific ...

SOFIA also confirmed the presence of water in the soil of Clavius Crater on the Moon — a find made during the observatory’s first-ever look at our satellite. Because Clavius is on the sunlit ...

In 2020, scientists announced that they had detected trace amounts of water in sunlit areas of the moon's Clavius Crater using SOFIA data. "Previously there were indications from other missions of ...

Additionally, with the new observations, the researchers were able to create a map of the water abundances in the crater, which they could not do for the Clavius Crater due to insufficient data.

A couple of years ago, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy detected water molecules in the Clavius Crater, one of the largest lunar craters visible from Earth. It is located ...

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy detected water molecules in the Clavius Crater, one of the largest lunar craters visible from Earth. It is located in the moon’s ...