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Whipple is a lunar impact crater located on the lunar far side near the northern pole. The crater is located East of the prominent craters Byrd and Peary; the latter of which it is located on the rim of. Whipple is permanently shaded from the Sun. Volatile species of atoms and molecules such as water (and mercury) that enter the crater freeze and thus get trapped due to the extremely cold conditions that prevail within the crater.