Cabeus (crater)
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Cabeus is a lunar impact crater that is located about 100 km from the south pole of the Moon. At this location the crater is seen obliquely from Earth, and it is almost perpetually in deep shadow due
Cabeus Crater (upper left) as imaged by the Diviner instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Cabeus Crater.
The flash from the LCROSS Centaur impact.
Target area of the Centaur rocket at Cabeus crater.
Malapert (crater)
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Malapert is a lunar impact crater that lies near the south pole of the Moon, named for 17th century astronomer Charles Malapert. British astronomer T. W. Webb noted "this is the nearest visible crater
Cabeus (crater)
…can be seen of this crater, even from orbit. Through a telescope, this crater appears near the southern limb of the Moon, to the west of the crater Malapert and to the south-southwest of Newton. Visibility is impacted by libration effects. The crater name Cabeus first appeared in the 1651 work Almagestum…
Lunar Orbiter 4 image with north at top. Malapert Mountain is the bright peak near bottom center.
Malapert crater is north to the Malapert massif, the larger highland is the Leibnitz Beta massif.
Malapert as viewed from Earth
Full Moon 2010