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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 (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.
Perspective map of Gadsden in 1887 There were 16,456 households, out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.5% were married couples living together, 18.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.7% were non-families. 33.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.9% had someone living ...
Planimetric map of Station 2. Nansen-Apollo is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley, at the base of the South Massif. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. The astronauts referred to it simply as Nansen during the mission. Geology Station 2 of the mission was located ...
We have the Apollo missions to thank for a lot of our geological knowledge about the moon.
Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.; The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.
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).
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 ...