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LROC Image Of The Apollo 14 Landing Site #1
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LROC NAC image
of the Apollo 14 landing site
and nearby Cone crater.
This picture is a slightly enhanced crop from the original LROC NAC image of the Fra Mauro highlands and shows the Apollo 14 landing site and nearby Cone crater. The faint trails left by the astronauts’ footprints can be clearly seen.
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/astroarts.org
Panorama of Saddle Rock
This panorama, stitched from the Hasselblad photographs AS14-68-9449/50/51 taken by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, shows Saddle Rock, the largest boulder seen during the second extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 14 mission. Named for its shape, Saddle Rock is 4,5 meters across.
Image Credit: NASA/Panorama by astroarts.org
Identifying Saddle Rock in the LROC NAC image
of the Apollo 14 landing site.
This picture combines a crop (scaled by a factor of 233 %) from the LROC NAC image of the Apollo 14 landing site with the panorama of Saddle Rock shown above. The arrow points to the location of Saddle Rock at the Apollo 14 geology station C1 near the rim of Cone crater.
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/astroarts.org