Illumination
Requires a time-specific Sun vector combined with local terrain horizons. This shaded-relief overview alone cannot establish daylight duration.
01 / Mission atlas
Read the south-pole terrain
Switch between LOLA shaded relief and LROC surface imagery. Candidate-region names follow NASA’s 2024 update; the overview map is not a landing-site-scale hazard assessment.
South polar stereographic
LOLA shaded relief
South Pole · 90° S
Color-shaded elevation · LOLA / LRO
LOADING SOURCE
LOLA shaded relief · 30 m/pixel source productUSGS layer catalog
This is a regional overview. Numerical elevation and terrain-blocked visibility are not inferred from the shaded image.
Communications
Earth direction is only the start of a link assessment; intervening terrain, relay coverage, and mission link requirements still matter.
Landing slope
Use the site-scale LOLA slope product for screening. No slope values are estimated from map colors in this view.