Information on latest NASA plans to send LRO, LAMP, LOLA & LEND* to 
the Moon to see if the water is really there.

        http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/28apr_lro.htm?list76302

Most exciting thought department: Lunar South Pole has "peaks of 
eternal sunshine" (hot and light)_ close to the deep and permanently 
shadowed and therefore cold valleys where water is believed/hoped to 
be. The combination suggest all sorts of interesting possibilities.

Most pictures click through to an explanatory paage and clicking 
pictures on those pages often provides a higher res version.
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Lunar exploration - artists impression of specific location with 
notes.
Interesting

        http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mars/lunaractivities/html/s88_33693.html

High and low res pictures. Interesting.
You can get paid by NASA to create pictures like these :-)

"  ... Here, a Lunar Base traverese mission crew stands on the 
northern tip of Vallis Schroteri during an exploration mission to the 
Aristarchus plateau region. ... "

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For a high res artists impression (3.5 MB) of a Lunar base see.

        http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mars/lunaractivities/hires/s95_01563.jpg

Smaller versions available via above article.
Cute, but far far from Chesley Bonestall standard.
And the dog appears to have 6 legs - or there may be two of them.

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Lunar South Pole composite photo map
Worthwhile

        http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hires/clm_usgs_17.gif

False colour Clementine (presumably) partial south pole ?water? map

        http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/aitken.gif





        Russell McMahon


* Makes C3PO & R2D2 sound positively pedestrian - which, of course, 
they are. 

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