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"release_date": "2021-04-01T10:00:00-04:00",
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"title": "From Apollo Sites To The South Pole",
"description": "Beginning on the near side of the Moon, with the Apollo sites marked, the view quickly moves to the South Pole and zooms in to show the changing illumination conditions there for an entire year. || pole.0126_print.jpg (1024x576) [63.6 KB] || pole.0126_searchweb.png (320x180) [32.6 KB] || pole.0126_thm.png (80x40) [3.1 KB] || apollo_to_south_pole_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [86.6 MB] || apollo_to_south_pole_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [44.9 MB] || apollo_to_south_pole_720p30.webm (1280x720) [20.0 MB] || apollo (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || apollo_to_south_pole_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [16.2 MB] || apollo (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || apollo_to_south_pole_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [354.9 MB] || ",
"release_date": "2020-07-20T09:00:00-04:00",
"update_date": "2025-06-23T00:10:15.422640-04:00",
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"alt_text": "Beginning on the near side of the Moon, with the Apollo sites marked, the view quickly moves to the South Pole and zooms in to show the changing illumination conditions there for an entire year.",
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"title": "LRO Peers into Permanent Shadows",
"description": "The Moon's permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs, are places on the Moon that haven't seen the Sun in millions, or even billions, of years. The Earth's tilted axis allows sunlight to fall everywhere on its surface, even at the poles, for at least part of the year. But the Moon's tilt relative to the Sun is only 1.6°, not enough to get sunlight into some deep craters near the lunar north and south poles. PSRs are therefore some of the coldest, darkest places in the solar system.Because of that, PSRs are expected to be excellent traps for volatiles, chemicals that would normally vaporize and escape into space, and this includes water. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) includes several instruments designed to peer into the PSR darkness and measure temperature, reflectivity, and neutron absorption, all of which are clues to what chemicals might be hiding there. This animation shows where the PSRs are and in what ways LRO can see inside them. || ",
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"alt_text": "Beginning with a full-frame Moon, the camera flies to the lunar south pole and shows areas of permanent shadow. Realistic shadows evolve through several months.",
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