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Moon siteSouth polar region (south of 80°S)2 mission records, 2 not yet launched

Missions to Haworth crater

2 mission records in this dataset name Haworth crater: 2 not yet launched (Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4, MoonRanger micro-rover).

Map positions are display geometry, not landing points. This site in the Moon map's site list.

Facts

IAU name
Haworth
Gazetteer type
Crater
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
Feature 14502Accessed 2026-10-31
Centre
87.45°S, 5.17°WPlanetographic, east positive. The named feature's centre, not a landing point.
Diameter
51.42 km
North-south extent
86.60°S to 88.30°SDrawn as the dashed circle on the map; the record's site lies in or near it.
Side of the Moon
South polar region (south of 80°S)
Placement note

Firefly names the rim of Haworth crater, about 40 km south of Mons Malapert, and has not published exact coordinates, so the crater centre is shown. It is not a landing point.

Where it is

Ring: has a mission not yet launchedSolid: every mission launched, cancelled or stalledDashed circle: the named feature's extent from the Gazetteer; the record's site lies in or near it. Centres are not landing points.Schematic positions only; no terrain is drawn.The records give no boundary for the south polar region; 80°S is only the edge of the polar view.

See Haworth crater on the 3D Moon

Mission records

2 records

Each record's own target site, verbatim. Payloads and instruments are placed by their own record's target site.

MissionKindOperatorTarget site in the recordStatusCarried by
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4 (NASA CLPS task order CS-6, lunar south pole)SpacecraftFirefly AerospaceLunar south pole region, about 40 km south of Mons Malapert on the rim of Haworth crater (Firefly); exact coordinates not publishedIn development · Planned, no earlier than 2029Not carried
MoonRanger micro-rover (Astrobotic / Carnegie Mellon University, Neutron Spectrometer System)PayloadNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLunar south pole region (Blue Ghost Mission 4 landing area on the rim of Haworth crater)Manifested · Planned, no earlier than 2029Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4 (NASA CLPS task order CS-6, lunar south pole)

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Cite this page

SpaceMiningData, “Missions to Haworth crater”, dataset version a00fa2c68a45, built 2026-11-11, https://spaceminingdata.com/sites/haworth-crater.html. Position: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature; USGS Astrogeology Science Center), feature 14502, accessed 2026-10-31. A named feature's centre is not a landing point.