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Apollo 17 (December 7–19 ... Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the ... View of Earth from Apollo 17 while in transit to the Moon, a photo now ...
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt working next to Tracy's Rock in the Taurus–Littrow valley on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The South massif is visible to the right. Tracy's Rock, known as Split Rock or the Station 6 Boulder in the scientific literature, is a large boulder on the Moon which was visited by the Apollo 17 crew on December 13, 1972 at their Taurus-Littrow landing site.
This week, unlock the moon’s true age with Apollo 17 samples, uncover dinosaur footprints on a beach, discover a hidden ancient Antarctic landscape, and more.
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.
During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) of soil and rock samples ...
Zircon crystals hidden within lunar dust samples collected during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 have revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. Rock collected by ...
NASA image of Troctolite 76535.. Troctolite 76535 is a lunar sample discovered and collected on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 in the Taurus–Littrow valley.It has a mass of about 156 grams (5.5 oz) and is about 5 centimeters (2.0 in) across at its widest point.