Apollo 17 VIP Site Anaglyph
Image Credit: Gene Cernan, Apollo 17, NASA; Anaglyph by Erik van Meijgaarden
Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses
and check out this stereo scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color
anaglyph features a
detailed 3D view of Apollo 17's
Lunar Rover in the foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills. Because the world was going to be able
to watch the
Lunar Module's ascent stage liftoff via the rover's TV camera, this
parking place was also known as the VIP Site. In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, while colleague Ronald Evans
orbited overhead. The crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and soil samples, more than from any of the other lunar landing sites. Cernan and Schmitt are still the last
to walk (or drive)
on the Moon.
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