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Shackleton Crater

The south pole's shadowed crater, measured by laser in the dark — where Artemis aims.

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LRO LOLA laser altimetry, 118 m/px · product Lunar_LRO_LOLA_Global_LDEM_118m_Mar2014 · NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University · USGS Astrogeology. Scene 120 × 120 km, elevation -4,376 m to 1,934 m against the 1,737.4 km lunar reference sphere. Surface color: LROC NAC controlled south-pole mosaic (1 m/px) — real illumination, the shadows are truly that dark. NASA/GSFC/ASU. A polar scene: both sources are re-projected onto a pole-centered grid; the pole itself is at frame center. LOLA measures by laser, so the permanently shadowed floor is mapped even where no photograph can see it.

No generative models anywhere on this page — the pipeline crops, resamples down, and normalizes; it never invents a bump the instrument didn’t measure.

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