Distribution of Water Ice Bearing Pixels Overlain on a Mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Distribution of Water Ice Bearing Pixels Overlain on a Mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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Distribution of water ice bearing pixels (green and cyan dots) overlain on a mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for the (a) northern and (b) southern polar regions. Each dot represents a 280 m x 280 m pixel from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument on the Chandrayaan-1 orbiter.

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