Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ShadowCam Project. The authors would like to thank the work of ShadowCam and KPLO operations personnel who made it possible to acquire high-resolution images. The authors would also like to thank the LRO LROC, LOLA and Diviner personnel for the context WAC image, the topographic data and the surface temperature maps. The contribution of J.-P. Williams was funded by the NASA KPLO Participating Scientist Program under award number 80NSSC21K0711.
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