NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection

Apollo 17: Boulder in Stereo

Humans left the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] over thirty years ago, but donning red-blue glasses [ http://mpfwww.jpl.n…glasses.html ] (red for the left eye) you can share this excellent stereo [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] perspective view of their last stomping ground. Recorded [ http://images.jsc.n…10075973.htm ] by Eugene Cernan, the scene depicts his fellow astronaut and geologist Harrison Schmitt next to a large split boulder on the floor of the narrow Taurus-Littrow valley located at the eastern edge of the lunar Mare Serenitatis. Parked nearby, their lunar rover [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] is visible beyond the boulder at the right. During their stay the Apollo 17 astronauts explored [ http://www.hq.nasa.…] the unusually dark terrain at the Taurus-Littrow landing site [ http://www.boulder.…landing_sites.html ] and deployed explosives to test [ http://cass.jsc.nas…Apollo17/A17_Experim ents_LSPE.html ] the internal geology of the Moon. Apollo 17 returned the most lunar rocks and soil samples of any lunar mission [ http://www.badastro…].

Apollo 17 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…apollo17info.html ], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/] (Stereo Image by Patrick Vantuyne)

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