The North Pole of the Moon

Caption JAXA:"This is a still image taken out from the first moving image shooting when the KAGUYA Probe flew from the Northern Area of the Oceanus Procellarum (*1) to the center of the North Pole.
As the altitude near the North Pole is high, the angle of the coming sunlight was lower, thus the shade of the crater topography looks long in the image.
The moving image was taken at 04:07 a.m. on October 31st, 2007 (JST) by eight-fold speed intermittent shooting (eight minutes is converged to one minute) from the KAGUYA, and the data was received at the JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center on the same day.

(*1) Oceanus Procellarum:
The dark area on the Moon's surface called "ocean". It is located at the left end of the Northern Hemisphere on the front side of the Moon when we look up at it from the Earth.