| This Apollo
10 stereo pair (AS10-32-4848 & 4849) shows the Apollo 11 landing site in
the Sea of Tranquility as indicated by the yellow dot. The area immediately
around the landing site is flat and devoid of craters and so was considered
safe to land on. Elsewhere we see different-sized craters, some crater chains,
and a few hills and rilles (long narrow valleys). The large crater at the
bottom is Moltke, about 4 miles (6km) in diameter. Below Moltke, the shallow
Hypatia rilles that stretch 75 miles (120km) across the lunar surface can
be seen. |
