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Presented in both horizontal (landscape) and vertical (portrait) aspect ratios.Music provided by Universal Production Music: Unmatched Skills – John K Sands, Marc Ferrari, Michael A TremanteThis video can also be viewed on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || southpole.0120_narrated_print.jpg (1024x576) [19.1 KB] || PinpointingSouthPole-YouTubeHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [50.5 MB] || PinpointingSouthPole-VERTICAL.mp4 (1080x1920) [54.6 MB] || PinpointingSouthPole-VERTICAL.webm (1080x1920) [7.8 MB] || PinpointingSouthPole-MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [382.4 MB] || PinpointingSouthPole-Captions.en_US.srt [1.5 KB] || PinpointingSouthPole-Captions.en_US.vtt [1.5 KB] || PinpointingSouthPole-YouTubeHD.mp4.hwshow || ", "hits": 177 }, { "id": 4944, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4944/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-10-16T20:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth and Sun from the Moon's South Pole", "description": "An animated view of the Sun and the Earth as seen from the Moon's South Pole, narrated by the visualizer.Music Provided by Universal Production Music: “Enduring Faith” – Frederik WiedmannThis video can also be viewed on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || shackleton_earth.0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [41.1 KB] || shackleton_earth_YouTube.webm (1920x1080) [15.7 MB] || shackleton_earth_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [177.5 MB] || shackleton_earth_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [3.4 KB] || shackleton_earth_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [3.2 KB] || shackleton_earth_YouTube.mp4.hwshow || ", "hits": 455 }, { "id": 4770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4770/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-07-20T09:00:00-04:00", "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] || ", "hits": 371 }, { "id": 40372, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/moonpole/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Moon's South Pole", "description": "This is a collection of the media resources available on the Scientific Visualization Studio website related to the south pole of the Moon, an area of special interest for future exploration. It has been studied intensively by every instrument aboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). It includes cold, permanently shadowed craters that have collected water and other volatiles and shielded them from the Sun. Its rugged terrain also offers temperate high spots with persistent sunshine ideal for continuous solar power generation. More information and media are available at\nLRO Camera Images (search for south pole)\nLRO Diviner temperature measurements\nLyman-Alpha Map\n", "hits": 1409 }, { "id": 4289, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4289/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-05-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Lowers Periapsis", "description": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flies over Shackleton crater near the lunar south pole in this computer rendering. || lro_south_pole_print.jpg (1024x1024) [293.7 KB] || lro_south_pole_web.jpg (320x320) [32.7 KB] || lro_south_pole_searchweb.png (320x180) [89.9 KB] || lro_south_pole_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || lro_south_pole.tif (2400x2400) [6.3 MB] || ", "hits": 142 }, { "id": 4043, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4043/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-03-06T11:00:00-05:00", "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. || ", "hits": 881 }, { "id": 4716, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4716/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Visualizing Shackleton Crater", "description": "A visualization of Shackleton crater. The near (Earth-facing) side of the Moon is to the right. In the false-color elevation on the left, red is higher and blue is lower. || shackleton_split_final_print.jpg (1024x1024) [280.9 KB] || shackleton_split_final_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.2 KB] || shackleton_split_final_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || shackleton_split_final.tif (3600x3600) [12.8 MB] || ", "hits": 596 }, { "id": 10931, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10931/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-03-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Struck", "description": "Long before the first humans gazed up into the velvety blackness of the night sky, the moon was young and fresh-faced. These were the early days, before the patchwork of inky stains called the Man in the Moon, before the brilliant starburst patterns called ray craters decorated the surface, before a colossal crash turned one-fifth of its real estate into the South Pole-Aitken basin. Fast-forward to the present, and the moon's once smooth contour appears flawed and disfigured, punished by explosive volcanic eruptions and raining interstellar objects that bombarded its surface over eons. In the visualizations below, see some of the clearest views of the moon yet, courtesy of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and witness a recreation of the destructive, 4.5-billion-year evolution of Earth's natural satellite. || ", "hits": 164 }, { "id": 10929, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10929/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-03-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Narrated Tour of the Moon", "description": "Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do. See some of the sights and learn more about the moon here! || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 3874, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3874/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-10-27T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tour of the Moon", "description": "Using elevation and image data returned by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this animation takes the viewer on a virtual tour of the Moon. The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a wide variety of lunar terrain features. Some are on the near side and are familiar to both professional and amateur observers on Earth, while others can only be seen clearly from space. Some are large and old (Orientale, South Pole-Aitken), others are smaller and younger (Tycho, Aristarchus). Constantly shadowed areas near the poles are hard to photograph but easier to measure with altimetry, while several of the Apollo landing sites, all relatively near the equator, have been imaged at resolutions as high as 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel.The shape of the terrain in this animation is based primarily on data from LRO's laser altimeter (LOLA), supplemented by stereo image data from its wide angle camera (LROC WAC) and from Japan's Kaguya mission. The global surface color is from Clementine. || ", "hits": 295 }, { "id": 3808, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3808/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-12-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "LOLA Stills for AGU 2010", "description": "These high resolution still images illustrate the global elevation map of the Moon being developed by the laser altimeter (LOLA) on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. To date, LOLA has measured the elevation of over two billion points on the surface of the Moon. These measurements make it possible to render shaded relief maps of the Moon with unprecedented accuracy and detail. See also this comparison of LOLA with past maps.The waning gibbous Moon is rendered from three points of view. For each view, a natural color image is paired with a false color version in which low elevations are blue to green and high elevations are yellow to red. The terrain is in highest relief near the terminator, or shadow line, where the Sun is setting on a month-long lunar day. Amateur astronomers pay particular attention to features near the terminator, since the high relief brings out details that are normally washed out in the glare of reflected sunlight. || ", "hits": 89 }, { "id": 3731, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3731/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LOLA: Lunar Topography in Natural Color", "description": "This animation is a brief tour of several prominent features of the Moon's terrain: Tycho crater, the south pole, and the South Pole-Aitken basin. It is match-moved to a companion piece showing the terrain elevations in false color.This is an update of animation 3594, which was produced before the launch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Except for the Tycho crater inset, the elevation map in this updated version is based entirely on early results of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter onboard LRO.The surface appearance is derived from photographs taken by the Clementine spacecraft. Although it shows the visible surface in natural color, this animation does not depict realistic sunlight and shadows. This is especially significant near the poles, where certain parts of the terrain can be in permanent shadow and would never be fully visible in the manner depicted here. || ", "hits": 366 }, { "id": 3727, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3727/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LOLA Lunar Topography in False Color", "description": "This animation is a brief tour of several prominent features of the Moon's terrain: Tycho crater, the south pole, and the South Pole-Aitken basin. The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. The view is match-moved to a companion piece showing the Moon in natural colors.This is an update of animation 3582, which was produced before the launch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Except for the Tycho crater inset, the elevation map in this updated version is based entirely on early results of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter onboard LRO. These results already represent a substantial improvement in our knowledge of the Moon's topography. || ", "hits": 301 }, { "id": 10483, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10483/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Early Results Press Conference Visuals", "description": "These are the visuals used to support the LRO Press Conference \"NASA's LRO Mission Mapping Lunar South Pole in Uprecedented Detail\" held on September 17, 2009 at Goddard Space Flight Center. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 3634, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3634/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-09-17T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Shackleton's Rim Through the Eyes of LRO/LROC", "description": "During the Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter's (LRO) Commissioning Phase, the high resolution Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the LRO Camera (LROC) instrument captured this 0.8-meter per pixel scale (angular resolution) two-image mosaic of Shackleton Crater on the moon's south pole. Many more images of this area will be obtained by the NAC over the coming months as the lunar south pole emerges from the shadows of winter. At meter scales, the geology of this region reminds us that the polar regions of the Moon are still waiting to be explored. The rim of Shackleton crater is a prime candidate for future human exploration due to its proximity to permanently shadowed regions and nearby peaks that are illuminated for much of the year.Last year, Japan's Selene and India's Chandrayaan spacecraft gave us our first high resolution look at the lunar south pole, which includes Shackleton crater. For its size, Shackleton has an exceptionally deep and rugged interior. Usually craters fill in with time as their walls slump and material from afar is thrown in by distant impacts. Much of Shackleton's rim appears rounded and is peppered with smaller craters, indications of a relatively ancient age. Right now it is not clear if Shackleton crater is relatively old or young. This NAC image reveals a shelf on the southeast flank of the crater that is more than two kilometers across and perfectly suitable for a future landing. The extreme Sun angle exaggerates the apparent roughness, however if you look closely at this scale any area that is between small craters could be good candidates for a potential landing site. || ", "hits": 135 }, { "id": 3577, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3577/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Permanent Shadows on the Moon", "description": "As the Earth and Moon orbit around the Sun, there are places on the Moon that never receive direct sunlight. Most of these permanently shadowed regions are at the lunar poles. This animation approximates the permanently shadowned regions pertaining to the Moon's south pole by maintaining a maximum sun angle to the surface of 1.5 degrees. These permanently shadowed areas are of interest because they could hold water ice. (NOTE: South Pole Digital Elevation Maps [DEM] based on publically released JAXA/Selene data.) || ", "hits": 520 } ] }