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Giants of the South Pole, Andrei Dumitriu
Giants of the South Pole, Andrei Dumitriu

Giants of the South Pole

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Took advantage of a good -6 degree libration in latitude and gave a try at the Moon's South Pole region. Here we have the well known peaks which rise on the highlands, and which are in fact high points on the rims of neighboring craters.

Hovering the image will bring in the annotations I made to easily spot some places, like the 98km wide Cabeus crater, which has its own story to tell. As its floor is in perpetual darkness, it was used by the LCROSS spacecraft as a target, and it dived right in for the search of the long aged question: is there water on the Moon? Analysis concluded and supported the existence of water in, what we call the lunar soil, regolith.

I've used craters instinctively to properly trace the path to the region of my interest - that being the South Pole. A method which was actually described by Astrovani, in one of his articles, as Crater Hopping. This coupled with Ewen Whitaker's chart from 1954 greatly eased my detective work in finding which is what.

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