Washington, July 20 (ANI): The world's first mission to the Moon's South Pole was announced by International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express, Inc, on Thursday.
The private enterprise mission will open up the possibility that the public will be able to access images from the moon online, Fox News reported.
Moon Express CEO Dr. Robert Richards said that their second Moon mission will be to the lunar South Pole to deliver the International Lunar Observatory (ILO) and to prospect for resources.
Richards said that the mission will provide a historic landing in an unexplored region of the Moon that may harbour some of the greatest resource deposits in the solar system.
If successful, the ILO will be the first private space telescope to operate from the lunar surface and be available to researchers, educators and the general public through the internet.
The observatory, which is intended to establish a base for permanent astrophysical observations and a lunar commercial communications system for researchers to utilize, will allow them to access images from the surface of the Moon.
It is hoped that it will create a new model of "citizen science" public participation and international collaboration. (ANI)
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