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Image 1: This is elevation map covering the eastern portion of South Pole-Aitken basin, including the Apollo Basin, made using data from Japan?s Kaguya spacecraft. The false colors indicate height; red represents highlands, and blue represents the lowest areas. Dashed circles mark the location of the main and inner ring of Apollo. The dashed line marks the location of the topographic profile illustrated in the Image 2 below. Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/NASA Image 2: This is a graph of the elevation (in meters) from the rim of the South Pole-Aitken basin through the Apollo basin made using data from Japan?s Kaguya spacecraft. The endpoints (A and A?) are marked in Image 1 above. Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/NASA Image 3: Three views of the Apollo Basin taken with NASA?s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument on board India?s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. The false-color image on the right reveals composition; the blues indicate surfaces that don't have as much iron in them (highlands crusts