Nighttime Temperatures at the Moon's North Pole

Nighttime Temperatures at the Moon's North Pole — NASA Science
Source: NASA Science

An image shows nighttime temperatures at the Moon’s north pole.

Those temperatures were measured by the Diviner instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.

The image highlights how thermal conditions vary across the polar landscape at night.

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