A new mosaic of Shackleton crater as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and ShadowCam
The lunar south pole looks haunting in a new mosaic image that uses photography from two different NASA cameras in orbit around the Moon. National Geographic, in coordination with NASA, shared a never-before-seen, high-resolution composite image of the lunar south pole with a detailed companion map of Artemis III candidate landing sites. This striking image of the Moon’s south pole region was composed from a series of photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), a network of cameras mounted on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which has been circling the Moon since June 2009, and ShadowCam, a NASAfunded instrument on the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). ShadowCam is 200 times more sensitive to light than previously deployed NASA lunar cameras.
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