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impact crater
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An impact crater straddling the lunar south pole, about 21 km across and 4.2 km deep, named after the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
-89.9, 0.0 · approximate ·
Connections
- is contains of Lunar South Pole Region — Shackleton straddles the pole itself, pairing a permanently shadowed floor with rim terrain sunlit for most of the lunar year — the combination Artemis surface infrastructure is designed around.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates