The boulders on the horizon in the distance at middle left are the fragments of the Sta. The bright area between my shadow and the boulder above is a result of the intense back-scattering from the regolith. 7 boulder (not fully framed at middle right) and boulder “ c” at left. The down-sun view looking west, which shows the relation between the Sta. A higher resolution, unlabeled view in a separate window, is available here. Three specific samples discussed below are indicated. The oval continues the area of shallow depression marked in Fig. To the left of the Rover some of its tracks can be seen.
Cernan is working at the LRV, which was not fully framed. For a higher resolution, unlabeled view in a separate window, click here. The text spans the area where I picked up the indicated samples described below. The oval outlines a shallow depression with my footprints. This image may give the reader a better idea on how hard it is to judge distances on the Moon. For a higher resolution view in a separate window, click here. The distance between me and boulder “c” is ~108 m as measured on the LROC Quickmap. This view looking south includes the large, squarish boulder at top right labeled “ c” in Fig.
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The series of photos from my Pan 23 sequence is shown as quarters in these next four figures. 21651-55 are the before images of the many small rocks I would sample.įig. Then we can take another one for location work.” This panorama consists of AS16-64. “Bob, I’m going to take the pan at 11 feet, so you can see the fragments that we’re going to pick up here. “131.” I must have misread the indicator, as I had taken a number of photographs during our traverse to Station 7. “And, Jack, what’s your frame count?” interrupted Parker. “There is another one of our blue-gray breccias, I think, over there: re-crystallized breccias with some of that crushed anorthosite in it. …See what kind of variety we can get here.” …You take a pan before, and we’ll start picking up some of those samples, and I’ll take a pan afterward. “You want me to help you with the dusting, Geno?” Planimetric map of the Station 7 layout, showing the locations of Pans 23, 24 the locations of various rock samples and the position of the LRV with respect to the location of the large boulder (black oval) that was sampled (Modified from ]).