Intuitive Machines have not yet released their analysis of the landing, but this OHRC image has to be a major contribution to that analysis. I have never seen anything like this before but we don't have images like this for most landings. It would be great to have this for Luna 23, for instance, and Surveyors 3 and 5 and many crash sites.

You can look for OHRC images here - you need to register.
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LRO imaged the Athena landing site:

https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1409

but again the most impressive and informative images were taken by India's Chandrayaan 2 orbiter. Its Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) took an image and Indian space enthusiast Chandra Tungathurthi found it in the released data:

https://twitter.com/this_is_tckb/status/1953355239546921281

I made this map using the image and that Yaoki image, hinting at what happened during the final approach.
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This is an annotated version of that image.

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The second rover was a tiny vehicle called Yaoki from Japan:

https://dymon.co.jp/en/yaoki/

It couldn't deploy but could take pictures looking 'down' (in this case sideways) and about 25 images were taken:

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/louisburtz/dymon-yaoki-lunar-rover-images-from-im2-mission/

Finally, here is my processed version of it. The odd curved disk at right is a decal which was fixed on the footpad and has broken off and curled up a bit. The very bright streak is part of the crater rim in sunlight.
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This article from NASASpaceFlight.com:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/blue-ghost-im-2-landings/

gives an account of the IM-2 Athena landing, after looking at Firefly's mission (they landed only 4 days apart). It includes this surface image:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/im-2_moon_orientation-1920x1442.jpg

So we got an image, but several experiments got to run tests including the TRIDENT drill, so there was some data to be had. A rover called MAPP from Lunar Outpost couldn't operate, but a second one took some images...
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We zoomed in to the landing site with the last set of maps, and Athena zoomed in too, taking images as it approached the landing site:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/intuitivemachines/

I think the image I used here came from a tweet, but I can't find the source now. I have changed the radial scale and cleaned up significant brightness variations. The shallow crater from yesterday is seen here, and the distant K crater. The original had an intuitive logo which is distorted here.
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