The Polar Maps of the Moon with AMIE/SMART-1

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009dps....41.3506d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #35.06

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The AMIE camera on SMART-1, the first European lunar mission, provided a large data set, including the north and the south pole regions. SMART-1 was in a 300 x 3000 km elliptical orbit, with perilune over the south pole.
The Moon surface displays two major types of terrain: the bright and rugged highlands and darker, smoother plains. The lunar north pole is in a highland region and spread out in between three large impact craters: Peary, 88,6° N, 33° E, Hermite , 86° N, 89,9° W and Rozhdestvensky, 85,2° N, 155,4° W. The quantitative map around the north pole shows news details of surface topography. The floor of the Peary crater is smooth and presents only few meteoritic bombardment formations most of them being near the rim. Similar technics were applied to construct maps of the South pole region. The southern highlands of the Moon are rugged and heavily cratered terrains with geology dominated by the South pole -Aitken (SPA) basin. Abundant basin secondary craters are scattered across the area, mostly created by the Orientale basin impact to the west and north. A particular interest has been carried to the topography surrounding the Shackleton crater, which is nearly coincident with the South pole, at 89.9° latitude and 0° longitude, with 19 km diameter, according to USGS coordinates. The AMIE mosaic of Shackleton crater spreads among 88,80 ° and 90 ° S in latitude. The high resolution mosaic give details about the complete rim of this crater with different illumination angles. The mosaic of Shackleton crater was extended in a global map of the south pole region. Eventually, the method used will be applied to mapping all areas of interest where AMIE has provided high resolution observations. The AMIE maps of the north and south pole of the Moon are presented.

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