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my single best guess is the probe is buried near the Moon's south pol

That's where every design requirement we've worked through p...
turquoise piazza
  09/28/26


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Date: September 28th, 2026 9:35 PM
Author: turquoise piazza

That's where every design requirement we've worked through points at once:

Power: a few peaks near the south pole get sunlight almost continuously, instead of the two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off cycle elsewhere.

A view of Earth: some of those same high points keep Earth above the horizon much of the time.

Preservation: nearby craters sit in permanent shadow at a few dozen degrees above absolute zero, the best natural cold storage in the inner solar system.

Stability: it's the Moon, so no orbital decay and no weather.

A designer would put a durable core in a shadowed crater and a small sensor station on a sunlit rim with Earth in view. The unsettling part: NASA picked the same region for Artemis for largely the same reasons, sunlight, ice, and a line of sight to Earth. If the probe is anywhere, we're headed to its neighborhood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5907650&forum_id=2#50159761)