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To the south is Sherlock, and to the southwest are the Apollo 17 landing site and the large crater Camelot. View of Van Serg with Eugene Cernan at right. North Massif is on the horizon. Planimetric map of Station 9 including the rim of Van Serg. Apollo 17 panoramic camera image. Dark matrix breccia from Van Serg cratering ejecta (sample 79135).
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon.Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
The Apollo 17 project, which Feist began in 2009 as a part-time hobby and launched six years later [3] was the first real-time site published. It includes raw audio from the onboard voice and air-to-ground communication channels in Mission Control that had been released by NASA, and film that had been collected by archivist Stephen Slater in the UK. [1]
It served as the landing site for the American Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The valley is located on the southeastern edge of Mare Serenitatis along a ring of mountains formed between 3.8 and 3.9 billion years ago when a large object impacted the Moon, forming the Serenitatis basin and ...
Apollo 17 panoramic camera image. Note that the lunar module Challenger is visible as a bright pixel near top center. Trident is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed about 300 m north of its rim in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission.
One such conspiracy theorist took to YouTube recently to show what he calls “proof” that the Apollo 17 landing was faked. A YouTube user with the name StreetCap1 posted a video entitled ...
To the east of Shorty are Victory, Camelot, and the Apollo 17 landing site.To the southeast is Brontë.To the southwest are Lara and Nansen.. The crater was named after the character "Shorty" in Richard Brautigan's 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America, as well as to honor the genre of the short story with particular reference to J. D. Salinger.
The Apollo 17 lunar lander module left behind by US astronauts on the moon’s surface could be causing moonquakes, or small tremors, a new study revealed.