Overview of the VIPER Primary Mission Area (∼5 × 4 km) in a Moon 2000 polar stereographic projection: (A) LRO narrow angle camera mosaic, direction to south pole indicated by white arrow. (B) Sun visibility, yellow colors denote regions with nearly constant illumination, light-violet colors denote regions with near-permanent shadow, and dark-violet colors indicate PSRs. (C) Topographic slope angle. (D) Diviner polar summer average surface temperature (pixel scale ∼ 240 m). Please refer to M. Shirley et al. (2026, in preparation) and R. Beyer et al. (2025) for additional details about the VIPER landing site.