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29. South Pole Mosaic
29. South Pole Mosaic


Mosaic of about 650 Clementine images of the south pole of the Moon, from 80°S to the pole (center). The nearside of the Moon is the top half of the image; the bottom half is the farside. The dark region near the pole indicates an old depression, inside the rim crest of the South Pole-Aitken Basin (slide #25). Large parts of this area (about 15,000 km2) are permanently shadowed, and bistatic radar results from Clementine indicate that they could contain deposits of water ice.

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