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                               2024 August 30
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                             Southern Moonscape
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Lorand Fenyes

   Explanation: [5]The Moon's south pole is toward the top left of this
   [6]detailed telescopic moonscape. Captured on August 23, it looks
   across the rugged southern lunar highlands. The view's foreshortened
   perspective heightens the impression of a dense field of craters and
   makes the craters themselves appear more oval shaped close to the lunar
   limb. Prominent [7]near center is 114 kilometer diameter crater
   Moretus. Moretus is young for a large lunar crater and features
   terraced inner walls and a 2.1 kilometer high, central peak, similar in
   appearance to the more northerly [8]young crater Tycho. Mountains
   visible along the lunar limb at the top can rise about 6 kilometers or
   so above the surrounding terrain. Close to the lunar south pole,
   [9]permanently shadowed crater floors with expected reservoirs of
   water-ice have made the rugged south polar region of the Moon a
   [10]popular target for exploration.

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   4. https://fenyeslorand.hu/en/
   5. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/237
   6. https://fenyeslorand.hu/naprendszerunk/
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2408/lorand_fenyes_hold_0016_south_pole.jpg
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210805.html
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230505.html
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