Complementary Data for Wueller et al. (2026): Assessing Potential Landing Sites with Favorable Illumination and Accessible, Potentially Volatile-Rich Permanently Shadowed Regions within Artemis Candidate Landing Regions

This data is complementary to Wueller et al. (2026): Assessing Potential Landing Sites with Favorable Illumination and Accessible, Potentially Volatile-Rich Permanently Shadowed Regions within Artemis Candidate Landing Regions. JGR Planets, 131(3), e2025JE009434. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009434

The data are accessed via Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.17084058
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STRUCTURE

Folder "Landing_Sites"

-> It includes the georeferenced shapefile of the candidate landing sites and the raster of the area satisfying the HLS requirements as well as ArcGIS Pro layerfiles (maintaining symbology).

Folder "Illumination_Modeling"

-> It includes the georeferenced raster files and ArcGIS Pro layerfiles (maintaining symbology) with the illumination conditions of all 16 Artemis candidate landing regions for the midsummers from 2025 to 2032.

File "Diffusion_Modeling"

-> The table includes the modeled crater ages for PSR-hosting craters within 2 kilometers of candidate landin sites in CR, CRE, dGR1, and PNS. The modeled crater age is given in column 'meanAge' in the atribute table.

Folder "PSR_Volatile_Estimates"

-> It includes the georeferenced shapefile and ArcGIS Pro layerfile of accessible PSRs in CR, CRE, dGR1, and PNS with their estimated volatile abundance in column 'Volatiles_max' of the atribute table.

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For further questions, please contact: lwueller@uni-muenster.de

Lukas Wueller, University of Münster, Institute of Planetology, 48149 Münster, Germany, 15th of September 2025

This work was conducted during the 2024 LPI Exploration Science Summer Intern Program, supported by funding from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE), which is part of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).

Please cite both:

Wueller, L., Berger, L. M., Christopher, H., Sugimoto, K., Thaker, A. D., Carton, L., Jo, W., Lee, S., Pedrelli, R., Sanchez, P., & Kring, D. A. (2026). Complementary Data for Wueller et al. (2026): Assessing Potential Landing Sites with Favorable Illumination and Accessible, Volatile-Rich Permanently Shadowed Regions within Artemis Candidate Landing Regions. Zenodo Dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17084058

Wueller, L., Berger, L. M., Christopher, H., Sugimoto, K., Thaker, A. D., Carton, L., Jo, W., Lee, S., Pedrelli, R., Sanchez, P., & Kring, D. A. (2026). Assessing Potential Landing Sites with Favorable Illumination and Accessible, Volatile-Rich Permanently Shadowed Regions within Artemis Candidate Landing Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. submission number 2025JE009434.