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  2. Lunar south pole - Wikipedia

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    The lunar south pole is located on the center of the polar Antarctic Circle (80°S to 90°S). [2] [4] (The axis spin is 88.5 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic.) The lunar south pole has shifted 5.5 degrees from its original position billions of years ago. [5]

  3. Selenographic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The longitude gives the position east or west of the Moon's prime meridian, which is the line passing from the lunar north pole through the point on the lunar surface directly facing Earth to the lunar south pole. (See also Earth's prime meridian.) This can be thought of as the midpoint of the visible Moon as seen from the Earth.

  4. Shackleton (crater) - Wikipedia

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    Shackleton is an impact crater that lies at the lunar south pole. The peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, while the interior is perpetually in shadow . The low-temperature interior of this crater functions as a cold trap that may capture and freeze volatiles shed during comet impacts on the Moon.

  5. de Gerlache (crater) - Wikipedia

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    de Gerlache is a lunar impact crater that is located along the southern limb of the Moon, within a crater diameter of Shackleton at the south pole. From the Earth this crater is seen from the edge, and it lies in perpetual darkness. Thus little or no detail can be seen of this crater, other than the edge of the rim.

  6. Russia’s Luna 25 mission launches to the moon - AOL

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    The mission is India’s second attempt to land at the lunar south pole after Chandrayaan-2 crashed into the moon in September 2019. If successful, the latest mission would make India only the ...

  7. List of quadrangles on the Moon - Wikipedia

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    The Moon has been divided into 30 quadrangles by the United States Geological Survey at the 1:2,500,000 map scale. [1] At the 1:1,000,000 scale it's divided into 144 quadrangles. [2] The quadrangles are numbered in bands from north to south. Each band is then divided into a latitude-dependent number of quadrangles.

  8. The lunar far side is wildly different from what we see ... - AOL

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    The South Pole-Aitken basin is believed to be the largest and oldest crater on the moon, spanning nearly a quarter of the lunar surface with a diameter measuring roughly 1,550 miles (2,500 ...

  9. India’s lunar lander finds signs a vast magma ocean may have ...

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    A vast magma ocean may once have existed on the moon's south pole, according to evidence obtained by India's Chandrayaan-3 rover. ... others are interested in lunar south pole. ... The 20 Black ...