North to the Moon's Pole
This image is from the voyage of the intrepid Galileo spacecraft as it passed above the Moon's north pole on its long journey to Jupiter . It was made over 60 years after Admiral Byrd became the first to fly over the Earth's north pole . Within a superposed frame of lattitude and longitude lines much of the Moon's familiar face , dominated by smooth dark mare , is brightly lit. Near the pole itself, the harsh shadows reveal a rugged, cratered lunarscape .