Image: A peppering of craters at the Moon's south pole
Monday, May 26, 2014 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —The dark and shadowed regions of the Moon fascinate astronomers and Pink Floyd fans alike. Our Moon's rotation axis has a tilt of 1.5º, meaning that some parts of its polar regions never see sunlight – the bottoms of certain craters, for example, are always in shadow.