Permanent Shadows on the Moon
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- Visualizations by:
- Alex Kekesi
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Bird's Eye View: With the camera looking straight down at the lunar south pole (Shackleton Crater is in the center of the screen) the light cycles one time around to show the full effect of shadows at the south pole. (NOTE: The first frame of this animation matches the last frame of "Zoom in" and the last frame matches the first frame of "Move to Tilted View".)
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Digital Elevation Map (DEM) data of the lunar south pole provided by the JAXA/Selene.
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Animators
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.) [Lead]
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Marte Newcombe (GST)
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Scientists
- John Keller (NASA/GSFC)
- Richard Vondrak (NASA/GSFC)
- Tim McClanahan (NASA)
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Producer
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
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Project support
- James W. Williams (GST)
- Tom Bridgman (GST)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
LRO Pre-Launch Resource Tape
(ID: 2009030)
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Andy Acuna
Datasets used in this visualization
Clementine (Collected with the HIRES sensor)
Clementine 750-nm Basemap (Collected with the UVVIS Camera sensor)
KAGUYA DEM (Collected with the Laser Altimeter (LALT) sensor)
Formerly known as "SELENE".
See more visualizations using this data setULCN 2005 (A.K.A. Unified Lunar Control Network 2005)
The ULCN 2005 (Unified Lunar Control Network 2005) is a lunar control point network that precisely measured 272,931 pieces of data produced by the USGS using existing lunar imagery or data from the Clementine and other observations.
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