Get out your red/blue glasses and check
out this awesome stereo view of another world. The scene was recorded by
Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one orbit
before descending to land on the Moon. The stereo anaglyph was assembled from
two photographs (AS17-147-22465, AS17-147-22466)
captured from his vantage point on board the Lunar Module Challenger
as he and Dr. Harrison Schmitt flew over Apollo 17’s landing site in the Taurus-Littrow Valley. The broad,
sunlit face of the mountain dubbed South Massif rises near the center of the frame, above the dark
floor of Taurus-Littrow to its left. Beyond the mountains, toward the lunar
limb, lies the Moon’s Mare Serenitatis. Piloted by Ron
Evans, the Command Module America is visible in orbit in the foreground against
the South Massif’s peak.
Image & info
via APOD: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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