Uncontrolled 1 m/pixel North Pole Mosaic

Due to the tilt of the Moon's spin axis (1.54°), some regions near the poles are in permanent shadow while other nearby regions remain illuminated for the majority of the year. This subtle tilt causes lighting changes from lunation to lunation. The poles are most illuminated at their respective summer solstice. Thus images for the NAC north pole mosaic were acquired during the northern solstice (2010-01-18 through 2010-06-07), and layered in order of the greatest incidence angle and sub-solar latitude closest to the pole. The mosaic has a latitude range of 85.5° to 90° and is stored as 40 polar stereographic map tiles.

The tiles are in latitudinal bands of 1.5°, 1°, 1°, and 1° radiating from the pole. There are four tiles in the first band (88.5° to 90° latitude), eight in the second (87.5° to 88.5° latitude), twelve in the third (86.5° to 87.5° latitude), and sixteen in the fourth (85.5° to 86.5° latitude).

NAC images were map projected onto the LOLA DEM using the LOLA crossover corrected ephemeris. The images were not registered to one another.

Each file is named with the following pattern:
NAC_POLE_NORTH_P###N????
where:
P indicates the map projection (P=Polar Stereographic)
###N indicates the center latitude in 1/10th degrees North (N)
???? indicates the center longitude in 1/10th degrees East

When citing this product, use the following reference:
Wagner, R. V., Speyerer, E. J., Robinson, M. S., and LROC Team. (2015). New Mosaicked Data Products from the LROC Team. In Lunar and PlanetaryScience Conference (Vol. 46, abstract #1473).https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/1473.pdf

For more information on LROC Reduced Data Records (RDRs), please refer to the LROC RDR Software Interface Specification (SIS).

North Pole NAC Mosaic

NAC_POLE_P900N0000 - 1 meter/pixel

NAC_POLE_P860N3487 NAC_POLE_P870N1650 NAC_POLE_P880N0675 NAC_POLE_P870N3450 NAC_POLE_P880N2025 NAC_POLE_P892N2250 NAC_POLE_P870N1050 NAC_POLE_P860N1012 NAC_POLE_P892N0450 NAC_POLE_P860N0787 NAC_POLE_P880N0225 NAC_POLE_P860N3037 NAC_POLE_P870N2550 NAC_POLE_P860N0337 NAC_POLE_P880N1125 NAC_POLE_P860N2812 NAC_POLE_P860N3262 NAC_POLE_P880N3375 NAC_POLE_P860N2362 NAC_POLE_P870N2850 NAC_POLE_P860N2587 NAC_POLE_P870N3150 NAC_POLE_P880N2475 NAC_POLE_P860N0562 NAC_POLE_P870N0150 NAC_POLE_P870N1950 NAC_POLE_P860N1462 NAC_POLE_P860N1237 NAC_POLE_P880N2925 NAC_POLE_P860N1687 NAC_POLE_P870N0750 NAC_POLE_P892N3150 NAC_POLE_P860N0112 NAC_POLE_P860N1912 NAC_POLE_P860N2137 NAC_POLE_P880N1575 NAC_POLE_P870N1350 NAC_POLE_P870N2250 NAC_POLE_P892N1350 NAC_POLE_P870N0450

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