Shackleton Connecting Ridge at the lunar South Pole. Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 probe lands on the lunar surface near Shackleton Crater, a site of great interest for future human missions to the Moon, but it lands on one side, rendering its solar panels unusable. Consequently, electrical power remains available for only a few days, preventing nearly all of the science program on the surface. It is then located a few days later by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe, inside a small crater, the slope of which likely caused it to overturn.
