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Apollo 17: Lunar module from a distant view

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo17-30131

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 20 cm

Jack Schmitt took this picture of the LM from Station 6 with the 500-mm lens. Note the lighter surface around the spacecraft, produced by the sweeping action of the descent plume. Station 6 is about 3.1 kilometer from the LM, which is about 7 meters tall. The two large craters beyond the LM with prominent rim boulder fields are probably Hess (left) and Mackin (right), which are both about 6 km from Station 6 on higher ground than the landing site. Each of the craters is about 600 meters in diameter.

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1972 - APOLLO - APOLLO 17 - BLACK AND WHITE - LM - LUNAR MODULE - LUNAR SURFACE - MODULE - MOON - SOIL - SPACE - SPACESHIP -