112 - Polar Areas: View of the South Pole

Mosaic of about 650 Clementine images of the South Pole of the Moon, from 80° South Lat. to the Pole (center). The Near-Side of the Moon is the top half of the image; the bottom half is the Far-Side. The dark region near the Pole indicates an old depression, inside the rim crest of the South Pole-Aitken Basin. Large parts of this area (about 15.000 Km2) are permanently shadowed and bistatic radar results from Clementine indicate that they could contain deposits of water ice.