{"id":137893,"date":"2022-04-09T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-cosmic-camera-is-being-sent-to-the-moons-south-pole"},"modified":"2022-04-09T08:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:02:27","slug":"a-cosmic-camera-is-being-sent-to-the-moons-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-cosmic-camera-is-being-sent-to-the-moons-south-pole","title":{"rendered":"A Cosmic Camera is Being Sent to the Moon\u2019s South Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fz3WgEDWAg8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) in Hawai\u2019i is preparing to launch a dual-camera system attached to a Moon lander whose primary purpose will be to photograph the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>ILOA is preparing its precursor science education payload for integration on a pioneering commercial Moon lander later this year, while also continuing to advance more robust observatories for future long-term astronomy, science, and exploration missions.<\/p>\n<p>The International Lunar Observatory (ILO) missions have been in development for the better part of a decade. In 2013, ILOA and the Moon Express corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/worlds-first-mission-to-the-moons-south-pole-announced-by-moon-express-inc-and-the-international-lunar-observatory-association-216089081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener\">announced the private enterprise mission in 2013<\/a> that would have both scientific and commercial purposes with the goal of delivering the ILO to the Moon\u2019s South Pole aboard a robotic lander. The hope is that it would establish permanent astrophysical observations and lunar commercial communications systems for professional and amateur researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) in Hawai\u2019i is preparing to launch a dual-camera system attached to a Moon lander whose primary purpose will be to photograph the cosmos. ILOA is preparing its precursor science education payload for integration on a pioneering commercial Moon lander later this year, while also continuing to advance more robust [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}