Get out your red/blue glasses and check out [ http://www.apolloar…] this stereo scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph [ http://en.wikipedia…] features a detailed [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] 3D view of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover [ http://www.batsinth…] in the foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills. Because the world was going to be able to watch [ http://history.nasa…] the Lunar Module's [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] ascent stage liftoff via the rover's TV camera, this parking place [ http://www.boulder.…landing_sites.html ] was also known as the VIP [ http://en.wikipedia…Very_Important_Perso n_(person) ] Site. In December [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. The crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and soil [ http://www.nasm.si.…moonrocks6.htm ] samples, more than from any of the other lunar landing sites. Cernan and Schmitt are still the last to walk [ http://www.alanbean…] (or drive) on the Moon [ http://www.hq.nasa.…].
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Get out your red/blue glasses and check out [ http://www.apolloar…] this stereo scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph [ http://en.wikipedia…] features a detailed [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] 3D view of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover [ http://www.batsinth…] in the foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills. Because the world was going to be able to watch [ http://history.nasa…] the Lunar Module's [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] ascent stage liftoff via the rover's TV camera, this parking place [ http://www.boulder.…landing_sites.html ] was also known as the VIP [ http://en.wikipedia…Very_Important_Perso n_(person) ] Site. In December [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. The crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and soil [ http://www.nasm.si.…moonrocks6.htm ] samples, more than from any of the other lunar landing sites. Cernan and Schmitt are still the last to walk [ http://www.alanbean…] (or drive) on the Moon [ http://www.hq.nasa.…].
