Who is landing where, and what is already there
One neutral registry of planned landing sites, hardware still in use and historic sites, with the zones published around them. Every entry links to its source. A landing rocket blasts regolith across hundreds of metres or more, so a new site should be checked against all of them.
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Enter a landing point and a lander size. The report lists every registry entry within plume-ejecta reach, whether each sits in the main ejecta sheet, below it or behind terrain, and the zones the landing falls inside, with low, central and high estimates.
| Site | Kind | Location | Zones | Sensitive to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artemis candidate region: de Gerlache Rim 2 NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 88.1420°S 63.6620°W region, ±17 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Haworth NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 86.6350°S 23.6720°W region, ±25 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Malapert Massif NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 85.9250°S 1.2050°W region, ±18 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Mons Mouton NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 85.4090°S 30.8370°E region, ±14 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Mons Mouton Plateau NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 84.2910°S 27.4270°E region, ±58 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Nobile Rim 1 NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 85.4230°S 36.1900°E region, ±17 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Nobile Rim 2 NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 83.9760°S 57.9610°E region, ±17 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Peak Near Cabeus B NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 83.5520°S 68.4160°W region, ±17 km | none published | Hardware |
| Artemis candidate region: Slater Plain NASA One of NASA's nine candidate crewed landing regions (Oct 2024). NASA published names, not coordinates: the point is the centre we computed from the USGS region square and the circle reaches its corners. Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test; NASA has not said whether these regions carry over to the first landing (Artemis IV). | Planned site Candidate region | 87.2560°S 125.2180°E region, ±17 km | none published | Hardware |
| Blue Ghost Mission 2 (with Elytra Dark and ESA Lunar Pathfinder): Near Nassau crater, far side (target region; landing coordinates not published) Firefly Aerospace | Planned site Candidate region | 24.9100°S 177.3400°E region, ±38 km | none published | Hardware |
| Blue Moon Mark 1 Pathfinder ("Endurance"): Shackleton connecting ridge, south pole (target region; landing coordinates not published) Blue Origin | Planned site Candidate region | 89.5000°S 135.2000°W region, ±10 km | none published | Hardware |
| Griffin Mission One: Nobile crater region, near the south pole (target region; landing coordinates not published) Voyager Technologies (formerly Astrobotic) | Planned site Candidate region | 85.2800°S 53.2700°E region, ±40 km | none published | Hardware |
| IM-3 (Nova-C "Trinity"): Reiner Gamma lunar swirl, near the northern edge of its central bright oval (science target) Intuitive Machines | Planned site Landing target | 7.5850°N 58.7250°W published target | none published | Hardware |
| IM-4 (Nova-C): Mons Mouton, south pole (target region; landing coordinates not published) Intuitive Machines | Planned site Candidate region | 84.6000°S 31.0000°E region, ±65 km | none published | Hardware |
How we knowwhere the entries and zones come from
Sites. Past landings and impact sites use the coordinates in Mission Watch's curated mission records, most of them measured in LROC images (Wagner et al. 2017). Planned sites are the targets operators have published; where only a named region is public, the point is its approximate centre and the dashed circle its size. Laser retroreflectors and candidate regions are curated separately with their own sources.
Zones. A zone is shown only when someone published it. NASA's 2011 recommendations ask visitors to target touchdown no closer than 2.0 km to U.S. Government lander sites and 500 m to U.S. impact sites, with visit boundaries around Apollo 11 and 17; they apply to U.S. Government artifacts only, so they are drawn only there. The Artemis Accords (Section 11) ask signatories to announce safety zones, but no operator has published one with coordinates yet, so the registry has none. When one is published, it is added here with its source.
Plume reach. The conflict check uses the engine's plume-ejecta model, with its sources and limits in docs/science/plume-ejecta.md. Reach is given as low, central and high estimates because published work spans a wide range.