             APOD: 2017 December 30 - Apollo 17 VIP Site Anaglyph

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                               2017 December 30
                                      [2]
                         Apollo 17 VIP Site Anaglyph
  Image Credit: Gene Cernan [3] , Apollo 17 [4] , NASA [5] ; Anaglyph by Erik
                              van Meijgaarden [6]

Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo scene
from Taurus-Littrow [7]  valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph features a
detailed [8]  3D view of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover [9] in the foreground --
behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills. Because the world was
going to be able to watch [10] the Lunar Module's [11] ascent stage liftoff
via the rover's TV camera, this parking place [12]  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 [13] . 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 [14]  (or drive) on the Moon [15] .

                     Tomorrow's picture: to fly free [16]

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  [7] ap171124.html
  [8] ap040417.html
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  [10] https://www.nasa.gov/apollo45/
  [11] ap060107.html
  [12] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html
  [13] ap150103.html
  [14] http://www.alanbeangallery.com/
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  [16] ap171231.html
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