A topographic ... collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space Agency. This is a global view to show the entirety of the South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA), the ...
Image of Shackleton Crater, a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south pole, shows slevation (left) and shaded relief ...
The Moon's far side holds a colossal mystery – the South Pole-Aitken basin ... "The analysis, when combined with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, revealed a ...
Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular, with frozen water presumed to exist in deep craters at both poles. All of which raises the question of we ...