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Oblique view of Fra Mauro taken from lunar orbit on the Apollo 12 mission. The Fra Mauro formation (or Fra Mauro Highlands) is a formation on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 14 mission in 1971. It is named after the 80-kilometer-diameter crater Fra Mauro, located within it.
Fra Mauro is the worn remnant of a walled lunar plain. It is part of the surrounding Fra Mauro formation , being located to the northeast of Mare Cognitum and southeast of Mare Insularum . Attached to the southern rim are the co-joined craters Bonpland and Parry , which intrude into the formation forming inward-bulging walls.
The Ranger 7 lunar probe impacted Mare Cognitum at the conclusion of its picture-taking mission. [3] Surveyor 3 and Apollo 12 landed near its northern shore. [4] The outcrop of the Fra Mauro formation, where Apollo 14 landed [citation needed], is also located near Mare Cognitum.
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The Apollo 12 Lunar Module landed near Surveyor 3 on November 19, 1969. Astronauts Conrad and Bean examined the spacecraft, and they brought back about 22 pounds (10 kg) of parts of the Surveyor to the Earth, including its TV camera, which is now on permanent display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Photos taken by the India Space Research Organization moon orbiter Chandrayaan 2 recently show aerial images of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12's lunar landing vehicles.
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a human on the Moon and beyond.
The Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed the Lunar Module (LM) Intrepid north of Surveyor crater on November 19, 1969, and eventually walked over to Surveyor 3. During their descent, Surveyor crater was a major landmark, and is the largest crater at the landing site.