Saturday, October 31, 2009

Apollo 17 lunar landing site...

revealed in stunning detail in latest LRO images (click to enlarge). The descent stage of the lunar module Challenger, and footprints by astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt - the only geologist to fly to the Moon - as well as various scientific instruments, show clearly in the high-resolution images of the last place we visited on our nearest neighbor in 1972.

Previous related posts here and here.

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