Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander, named Odysseus, remains in good health, gathering solar energy and relaying data to the company's mission control in Houston, USA.
According to NASA, the uncrewed lander called Odysseus touched down at the lunar South Pole on Thursday at 6:23 p.m. Eastern Time, carrying various NASA science and commercial payloads destined for the moon.
It will measure with a mass spectrometer how much ice in the sample is lost to sublimation as the ice turns from a solid to a vapor in the vacuum of the lunar environment.
