Lunar Grid Reference System · 25-km cell

BGN

A permanent 25 × 25 km cell of the NASA/USGS lunar grid, centered at 84.597°S, 85.601°E. Spans 85.027°S to 84.140°S, 80.538°E to 90.000°E.

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Reference

Cell code: BGN
Center (full LGRS, 1 m): BGN1250012499
Region: Lunar Polar Stereographic (polar)

Named features in or near this cell

Amundsencovers this cell
Rubin60 km
Oberbeck63 km
Mons Amundsen70 km
Faustini78 km
Malinkin82 km
Hédervári86 km
Nobile88 km

Permanently shadowed regions

This cell contains 1 permanently shadowed region covering 0.81 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: Nobile Rim 283 km
Artemis III candidate region: Slater Plain113 km
Artemis III candidate region: Nobile Rim 1125 km

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