On the south pole of the moon there are some craters that never see sunlight, such as Shackleton Crater.
These areas will be explored by astronauts when humans return to the moon later in the future.
A new mosaic was recently made using data from two different telescopes: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) and ShadowCam.
The latter is more sensitive than the former, and it can track features that would be too dark for other cameras to see.
In this case, it focuses on the inner structure of the crater.
The difference between the two views is that ShadowCam has been developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and its Danuri lunar orbiter; it was also used to test a prototype of a space internet antenna.
Full view of the new image showing some of the regions that never get sunlight.
Much like the Moon reflects the light of the Sun towards Earth, the Earth reflects sunlight towards the Moon.
It is known as Earthshine
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