Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera - IM-2 Landing site vs. Chandrayaan-3 vs Blue Ghost
As some of you know, Intuitive Machines has assumed the operations and the data analysis of NASA's Lunar Orbiter Reconnaissance Orbiter camera and the site is full of great images of the various missions.
The IM-2 Landing Site with explanations on what's seen in the images. You can download the 276MB image and zoom in as I did, here's a screenshot of Athena:
Here's the comments from LRO website: "The IM-2 Athena lander hit the surface faster than intended and ended up on its side within a 20-meter diameter crater".
For comparison, here's the Indian Space Agency's Chandrayaan-3:
The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is located about 600 kilometers from the South Pole
So while Chandrayaan-2 crashed into the moon, Chandrayaan-3 managed to land successfully but much farther away than Athena and in less rugged and sunnier location.
Finally, Firefly's Blue Ghost landing site:
The Firefly Blue Ghost lander is seen as bright pixel casting a shadow in the middle of the box
