Lunar South Pole Region
June 22, 2011
Simulated illumination conditions over the lunar South Pole region, from ~80°S to the pole. The movie runs for 28 days, centered on the LCROSS impact date on October 9th, 2009. The illumination calculations use the LOLA topographic dataset. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topics:
Unmanned spacecraft, LCROSS, Exploration of the Moon, Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Moon, Massachusetts, NASA/Goddard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology