Lunar Grid Reference System · 25-km cell
BKS
A permanent 25 × 25 km cell of the NASA/USGS lunar grid, centered at 81.298°S, 64.654°E. Spans 81.845°S to 80.747°S, 60.945°E to 68.199°E.
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Reference
- Cell code
- BKS
- Center (full LGRS, 1 m)
- BKS1250012500
- Region
- Lunar Polar Stereographic (polar)
Named features in or near this cell
- Svedberg12 km
- von Baeyer20 km
- Demonax B34 km
- Demonax C51 km
- Demonax A59 km
- Mons Amundsen61 km
- Oberbeck70 km
- Wapowski70 km
Permanently shadowed regions
This cell contains 2 permanently shadowed regions covering 14 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 284 km
- Artemis III candidate region: Mons Mouton Plateau153 km
- Artemis III candidate region: Nobile Rim 1154 km