Geologic map of the south side of the Moon

The map of the lunar region below lat 45˚ S. is the sixth part of a complete geologic reconnaissance mapping of the moon at 1:5,000,000 scale. The upper half of the map portrays the geology of the earth-facing or near side, and the lower half shows terrain that was unknown before spacecraft photography. The near side that was well photographed at resolutions of 0.1 to 0.5 km by Lunar Orbiter IV, but coverage of the far side is uneven quality (fig. 1). The geology of a small area near the south pole that was in shadow during the Orbiter missions can be partly inferred from the nature of adjacent units.