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Moon’s Illumination Map made from Over 1700 Photographs
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) constructed the “Illumination Map” using over 1700 photographs of the Moon’s south pole over a six month period. Each image was converted to binary by marking illuminated pixels as 1 and shadowed ones as 0. For every pixel this binary data was recorded over six months and averaged. So the…
