Lunar Grid Reference System · 25-km cell
BAL
A permanent 25 × 25 km cell of the NASA/USGS lunar grid, centered at 88.689°S, 161.565°E. Spans 89.171°S to 88.146°S, 135.000°E to 180.000°E.
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Reference
- Cell code
- BAL
- Center (full LGRS, 1 m)
- BAL1250012500
- Region
- Lunar Polar Stereographic (polar)
Named features in or near this cell
- Haynescovers this cell
- Shackleton32 km
- Sverdrup36 km
- Slater45 km
- Henson46 km
- Spudis48 km
- Marvin55 km
- de Gerlache70 km
Permanently shadowed regions
This cell contains 4 permanently shadowed regions covering 19 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: Slater Plain59 km
- Artemis III candidate region: de Gerlache Rim 287 km
- Artemis III candidate region: Haworth138 km