Lunar Grid Reference System · 25-km cell
AYL
A permanent 25 × 25 km cell of the NASA/USGS lunar grid, centered at 88.241°S, 135.000°W. Spans 88.827°S to 87.654°S, 153.435°W to 116.565°W.
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Reference
- Cell code
- AYL
- Center (full LGRS, 1 m)
- AYL1249912499
- Region
- Lunar Polar Stereographic (polar)
Named features in or near this cell
- Hensoncovers this cell
- Sverdrup17 km
- Brill38 km
- de Gerlache40 km
- Marvin40 km
- Spudis45 km
- Haynes46 km
- Shackleton55 km
Permanently shadowed regions
This cell contains 2 permanently shadowed regions covering 56 percent of its area.
Permanently shadowed regions of 5 square km and more from the LROC PSR mosaics' LOLA-derived shapefiles (Brown et al. 2022, NASA PDS), 75 to 90 degrees.
Nearest surface missions
- Artemis III candidate region: de Gerlache Rim 263 km
- Artemis III candidate region: Slater Plain108 km
- Artemis III candidate region: Haworth128 km