Complementary Data for "The Concept of Ballistic Shadows and the Effect of Slope on Impact Ejecta Emplacement – Implications for the Exploration of the Lunar South Polar Region"

This data is supplementary to Frueh, T., & Kring, D. A. (2026). The concept of Ballistic shadows and the effect of slope on impact ejecta emplacement – Implications for the exploration of the lunar south polar region. Icarus, 117228. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ICARUS.2026.117228 The data are accessed via Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20776039 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STRUCTURE Folder "Ballistic_Shadow_Results" -> It includes the final .png, as well as matlab .fig and .mat files. Folder "Profiles" - Folder "Excel" -> It includes the used topographic profiles in .xls formats. - Profile Shapefiles File "Fig11_ArcPy.txt" -> ArcGIS Python Script to Create Figure 11. File "Frueh_Kring_2026_Ballistic_Shadows.m" -> Matlab Script to create ejecta trajectories. File "Frueh_Kring_2026_Results.xlsx" -> Excel file with all derived trajectories. README.txt --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further questions, please contact: [e-mail] Thomas Früh, Department for Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 20th of June 2026 Please cite both: Frueh, T. & Kring, D. A. (2026). Complementary Data for "The Concept of Ballistic Shadows and the Effect of Slope on Impact Ejecta Emplacement – Implications for the Exploration of the Lunar South Polar Region" [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20776039 Frueh, T., & Kring, D. A. (2026). The concept of Ballistic shadows and the effect of slope on impact ejecta emplacement – Implications for the exploration of the lunar south polar region. Icarus, 117228. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ICARUS.2026.117228