Okay - maybe you want to hit a deep spot so your chances of finding ice are greater - that makes sense.
Still. there must be a time of day that the sun enters that crater from an angle which allows you to see the bottom? But perhaps even this is not the case since it is on the south pole?
I have something I'd like to add to this discusion. This is my gif between the original picture and a frame from the videoto taken from a video of NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite Mid-Infrared Camera View of the Impact
By the way, does anyone have a link to the original photograph?
West wall of Aristarchus crater seen obliquely by the LROC NACs from an altitude of only 26 km. Scene is about 12 km wide at the base, NAC M175569775 [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
It is similar to an input in a cave
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Yes, we have to give Exuberant1 all due credit for this particular find.
I have done some work on the images that he has posted and here are four versions of the photograph which can be seen in the above image.
The first two are cropped and rotated 90 degrees to the left. The second two are cropped and rotated 90 degrees to the right. (200 and 300 pixels)
Also, take note of the anthropological shapes showing in the images. From what I am finding in the lunar images of late leads me to believe that many areas the lunar surface have been artistically terraformed. I have also carried out some work on the 'picture frame' anomaly Exuberant1 has highlighted and will post my results later.
Image credit: Exuberant1
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I have posted this on other forums before, but I'm not sure how may of you are familiar with this particular anomaly.
It is quite rectangular and I don't think any of us were supposed to see it. It is right where the centaur stage impacted that night. This leads some to conclude that itwas simply drawn on there as a target marget, whereas other believe that it was the target, if you catch my drift.
All the NASA images of the area from that night have the area steeped in pitch darkness. The thing is not visible from earth, being behind a hill in the near constant shadows at the pole of the moon. This image might be infrared, which would account for the high visibility: