NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Crescent Crater

At high northern latitudes, as in this scene less than five degrees from the north pole, the sun is never very high above the horizon. Areas of higher elevation like crater rims poke their heads above the shadows, islands of sunlit terrain surrounded by darkness.

Date acquired: August 12, 2012

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington