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The lunar landscape down towards and around its south pole is wild, craggy and rugged; a raw, bare-rock wilderness of walled plains, huge craters and towering mountains all blasted out by a brutal asteroid bombardment many millennia ago. Down in the southern lunar highlands there are too many craters to count: they overlap and overlay each other. The most ancient, large craters have smaller, younger