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![Click here for figure 1 of PIA12077](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090813225524im_/http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA12077_fig1_thumb.jpg) Figure 1
This composite image depicts the moon's rugged south polar region in two
lights. The black and white image in figure 1 is a computer generated view
of the pole from radar reflectance data. The color image is a topographic
map of that same area. The color image is the highest resolution
topography map to date of the moon's south pole. It was generated by
scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., using
data collected using the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar
located in California's Mojave Desert. The new map provides contiguous
topographic detail over a region approximately 500 kilometers by 400
kilometers (311 miles by 249 miles).
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NASA/JPL
Image Addition Date:
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2009-06-18
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