If all goes well, the probe will land near the Moon's south pole next week in Malapert A, a crater that's a satellite of the 43-mile-wide Malapert Crater, and spend about a week there. The mission ...

The targeted landing site is a cratered terrain next to a 5km-high mountain complex known as Malapert. The region is one of the locations on Nasa's shortlist of places to send astronauts later ...