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The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) Payload Operations Summary from the IM-2 Mission

  • Authors: Matthew Hancock, Roberto Aguilar Ayala, Julie Kleinhenz, James Smith, Prital Johnson, Rolando Nieves, John Ryan O'Farrell, Amy Eichenbaum, Rodolphe Carro, Stefan Tomovic, Christopher Johnson, Alexander Jarnot, Aleksandra Gawronska, P. Douglas Archer, Amy McAdam, Nilab Azim, Ryan Gott, Morgan Crabtree, Philip Chu, Nicholas Bottomley, Paul Creekmore, Carter Fortuin, Samuel Goldman, Isabel King, Gale Paulsen, Jaqueline Stamboltsian, Vincent Vendiola, Kris Zacny, Janine Captain, Jacqueline Quinn

Matthew Hancock et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Detail of PRIME-1 landing site. (A) Regional context for the landing site of IM-2 overlain on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) global Wide Angle Camera (WAC) mosaic (E. Speyerer et al. 2011). Polar craters of interest are named in yellow; the pink box marks the location of panels (B) and (C). (B) Detail of the IM-2 intended landing site (white star) and actual landing site (yellow star) on LRO Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) Mons Mouton Plateau low-Sun controlled NAC mosaic (Combined mosaic #1) (M. Henriksen et al. 2023). (C) Depth of modern-day ice stabilities (M. Siegler et al. 2016) overlain on the Mon Mouton Plateau mosaic, with IM-2 intended landing site (white star) and actual landing site (yellow star).

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