Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Apollo 17's Lunar Rover
Explanation:
In December of 1972, Apollo 17 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours exploring [ http://www.hq.nasa.…] the Moon's Taurus-Littrow valley [ http://cass.jsc.nas…] while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. Cernan and Schmitt were the last humans to walk or ride on the Moon - aided in their explorations by a Lunar Roving Vehicle [ http://www.nasm.edu…]. The skeletal-looking lunar rover was just over 10 feet long, 6 feet wide and easily carried astronauts, equipment, and rock samples in the Moon's [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] low gravity (about 1/6 Earth's). In this picture [ http://www.hq.nasa.…], Cernan stands at the back of the rover which carried the two astronauts in lawn-chair style seats. An umbrella-shaped high gain antenna and TV camera are mounted in the front. Powered by four 1/4 horsepower electric motors, one for each wheel [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], this rover was driven a total of about 18 miles across the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.…]. Its estimated top speed was nearly 8 miles per hour.
Credit and Copyright:
Apollo 17 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/] (Image scanned by Kipp Teague)
keyword:
moon
keyword:
lunar surface
keyword:
Apollo 17
keyword:
rover
facet_who:
Harrison Schmitt
facet_who:
Ronald Evans
facet_when:
1972
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Taurus
facet_what:
Apollo 17
facet_what:
TV Camera
facet_what:
Rover
facet_when_year:
1972
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap990701

Apollo 17's Lunar Rover
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