Along with the mosaic image of Shackleton Crater, National Geographic released a topographical map of the lunar south pole showing potential Artemis 3 landing sites in the region. Get the Space ...

A topographic model of the Moon using a color-scale from purple (low) to red (high) based on data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space Agency.

Figure 1: South pole springtime albedo maps from the Viking and Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The difference in albedo between the SPRC and the Cryptic region suggests two styles of frost ...

MIT researchers have deployed advanced sensor technologies to the Moon’s south pole as part of NASA’s Artemis mission ...

A closer view of the same topographic model shown in [THE MAP FIGURE]. This is a synthetic view based on real-world data called a colored hillshade, i.e., elevation data that has been color-coded ...

By receiving at the two antennas, 3-D topographic maps of the lunar surface can be generated ... Now, scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map yet of the Moon’s south pole.

A topographical map of the far side of the moon shows the South Pole-Aitken basin in blue shades and the mass anomaly studied in the new research within the dashed line.

LRO topographic map of the Moon, showing the approximate outline of the "Procellarum" basin on the near side (left) and the South Pole-Aitken basin on the far side (right). One's real, the other ...