Distribution of Water Ice Bearing Pixels Overlain on An Annual Maximum Temperature Map (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Distribution of Water Ice Bearing Pixels Overlain on An Annual Maximum Temperature Map

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Distribution of water ice bearing pixels (green and cyan dots) overlain on an annual maximum temperature map made by the DIVINER instrument on 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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