This photo has not had the good fortune to get a good libration in latitude as others I've done and that will allow to identify very precisely the south pole location.

Yet it is a picture in which it would be possible to utilize the crater hopping technique to place it about.

This is a classic exercise when there is a region like this, trying to figure out the name of the craters that appear there.

Let's start by Curtius at the bottom a little left of center, then moved to Moretus, the crater located in the center, with its bright central peak. Just beyond it is Short, and a little to the right is the Newton and Newton D, G, A and B. A little further, almost in limbo is Cabeus, and emerging from limbo, one can see two mountain peaks known as M4 and M5. Also interesting to note Malapert because if we make an imaginary triangulation (dotted) with Cabeus would at the other end of the triangle the approximate position of the Lunar South Pole (marked with an x).

See this other picture I made with a good libration in latitude extata position: http://www.astrobin.com/full/48037/0/

Another interesting fact about the Cabeus crater is that it was her that was the impact of the LCROSS probe in order to prove the existence of water on the moon.

Impact results confirmed significant amount of water in the Earth's satellite, as disclosed by NASA:

Water represents a potential resource to sustain future lunar exploration.

Preliminary data from the LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission indicate that found success with water for the impact made on October 9, 2009, in permanently covered region of Cabeus shadows, near the south pole of the Moon.

"We are ecstatic," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS scientist and principal investigator of the Research Center in Moffett Field, NASA.

"Multiple lines of evidence" show that water was present in both parts of the material expelled by Cabeus crater, which makes it "safe to say that it has water," he adds.

The research group used known "signatures" infrared spectrum of water and other materials and compared them with the next spectrum to infrared collected by the LCROSS for verification.

Scientists have speculated for a long time about the source of vast quantities of hydrogen that have been observed at the lunar poles. The LCROSS findings show that water on the moon should be in larger quantities and more distributed by the star than previously suspected.

"We're revealing the mysteries of our nearest neighbor and by extension the solar system," said Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington.

The permanently shadowed areas "keep a key to the history and evolution of the Solar System," says the statement from NASA.

The team concentrated on data from the satellite's spectrometers, which provide the most definitive information about the presence of water. A spectrometer examines light emitted or absorbed by materials that helps identify their composition.