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The Population of Craters that Host Permanently Shadowed Regions Near the Lunar South Pole: Implications for Typical Cold-trap Lifetimes

  • Authors: Caleb I. Fassett, Ross A. Beyer, Brett W. Denevi, Ariel N. Deutsch, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Erwan Mazarico, Petr Pokorný, Stuart J. Robbins

Caleb I. Fassett et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Typical lifetimes of PSRs hosted by craters as a function of crater diameter, computed by calculating the intersection of measured PSR host crater frequencies with Neukum isochrons and the data from Figures 4 and 5. We truncate the VIPER data >350 m where count statistics are poor and exclude diameters <80 m in the pole-wide (non-VIPER) data because of the observed rollover at small sizes, which is likely an observation artifact. For craters smaller than 600 m diameter, lifetimes for PSRs inside craters decline rapidly. The lifetime of D ∼ 200–300 m PSRs is typically of order 1 Gyr (longest on the shallowest slopes); at D ∼ 100 m, PSRs typically last 100 Myr.

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