Lack of Exposed Ice Inside Lunar South Pole Shackleton Crater

@article{Haruyama2008LackOE,
  title={Lack of Exposed Ice Inside Lunar South Pole Shackleton Crater},
  author={Jun'ichi Haruyama and Makiko Ohtake and Tsuneo Matsunaga and Tomokatsu Morota and Chikatoshi Honda and Yasuhiro Yokota and Carle M. Pieters and Seiichi Hara and Kazuyuki Hioki and Kazuto Saiki and Hideaki Miyamoto and Akira Iwasaki and Masanao Abe and Yoshiko Ogawa and Hiroshi. Takeda and Motomaro Shirao and Atsushi Yamaji and J-L. Josset},
  journal={Science},
  year={2008},
  volume={322},
  pages={938 - 939}
}
The inside of Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole is permanently shadowed; it has been inferred to hold water-ice deposits. The Terrain Camera (TC), a 10-meter-resolution stereo camera onboard the Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) spacecraft, succeeded in imaging the inside of the crater, which was faintly lit by sunlight scattered from the upper inner wall near the rim. The estimated temperature of the crater floor, based on the crater shape model derived from the TC data… 
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