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NASA/JPL Horizons · Geometric visibility · Terrain not modelled

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Geometric horizon only · Sun visibility is not illumination or power · Earth visibility is not a communications link

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Where should we land on the Moon?

Explore landing sites at the lunar south pole and see how mission timing changes Sun and Earth visibility.

Mission brief

What does your mission need?

Mission Brief currently evaluates geometric visibility. Terrain-aware figures are in Compare and are not used here.

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Geometric horizon only · terrain not modelled · Sun visibility is not power · Earth visibility is not a communications link · meeting a brief is not mission feasibility

Geometric horizon only · Sun visibility is not illumination or power · Earth visibility is not a communications link

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Mission priority

Geometric horizon only · terrain not modelled · Sun visibility is not illumination or power · Earth visibility is not a communications link

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Key moments

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Sun, Moon and Earth

1 Sun, Earth and Moon

Not to scale — opens seen from the south. Directions shown by the rays and lines are true; the Sun is drawn close, so its rays arrive parallel and do not converge on it. The ring is a round, flat guide, not the Moon’s real path. Distances and body sizes compressed · drag to turn

2 The Moon and the site

Not to scale — directions are geometrically represented; distances are not · drag to turn

Not to scale — directions are geometrically represented; distances are not. Drag to turn.

3 At the site: the geometric horizon

Local horizon Above = geometrically visibleBelow = geometrically hidden

Earth, as it faces the Moon now Moon overhead at Line of sight only · day and night not shown

Time

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Visibility windows, and when both are up

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Sun above the horizon

Earth above the horizon

Sun + Earth overlap

Elevation over the period

Sun elevation

Earth elevation

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