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Caption: Figure 1.
Craters detected at different scales across the lunar south polar region (combined YOLOv8 + LOLA + Robbins + manual catalog, with the vast majority of detections from YOLOv8). The combined catalog has ∼21 million detected craters D ≥ 10 m (actually ∼40 million total, though very incomplete when D < 10 m). (a) 1:4M view of the south pole showing craters (yellow) from the catalog (D ≥ 200 m subset) and LOLA-defined PSRs (cyan). The black box is the extent of subparts (b)/(c). The base map is a LOLA hillshade. (b) Example 1:500K regional view of a portion of the detected craters (D ≥ 30 m subset) superposed on a LOLA hillshade with LOLA PSRs. Note that PSRs are in craters at multiple scales. (c) Same region on the LROC-controlled average mosaic. The blue box is the extent of subpart (d). (d) 1:40K local view of a portion of the catalog to demonstrate detection of decameter-scale craters.
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