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The View from an Astronaut's Eyes

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Apollo Mission Photography

This gallery features several digitized photographs from Apollo Mission explorations of the lunar surface. Anaglyph or 3D images require red-blue or red-green 3D glasses.

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[Photo: Apollo 16]
Apollo 16
 John Watts Young working at the back of the rover.
Anaglyph/3D
475 x 405, 154 kilobytes 		[Photo: Apollo 16]
Apollo 16
 Collection of the double core sample at Station 10 Prime. Charles Moss Duke has driven both sections of the core into the ground and is holding the hammer.
Anaglyph/3D
577 x 405, 110 kilobytes
[Photo: Apollo 17]
Apollo 17
 One of a panoramic series of photographs taken at Station 4 by Eugene Andrew Cernan. This image shows Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt at the rover. The trench site in orange soil is at the cross mark to the left and above the rover.
Anaglyph/3D
547 x 520, 82 kilobytes 		[Photo: Apollo 17]
Apollo 17
 Part of a panoramic series of photographs taken at Station 9 looking north.
Anaglyph/3D
800 x 482, 110 kilobytes
The imagery and maps were prepared as part of a project by a USGS team under funding from the USGS Technology Transfer Program and NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program. Dr. Christopher D. Condit (U. Massachusetts) and Mr. Richard Kozak provided scientific and technical assistance. Contact Kenneth L Tanaka (ktanaka@usgs.gov), Dennis McMacken (dmcmacke@usgs.gov), or Glenn Bennett (gbennett@usgs.gov), for additional information.

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