• Satellite view of a region of the Moon that is mostly flat but features some small craters.
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    Apollo 17 Landing Site
    Taurus-Littrow Valley, December 11—14, 1972
    A key science goal of what turned out to be the last Apollo lunar landing was to collect rocks to help date the formation of the Serenitatis Basin. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan explored that region on foot and in their lunar rover. With the help of LROC images, it appears that samples collected from the Sculptured Hills and North and South Massifs are actually ejecta deposits from the Imbrium Basin. The engineering and science results from Apollo 17 were an amazing capstone to the Apollo program.

    Image IDs: M142061915LR, M142068699LR
    Camera: NAC
    Image width: 15 km (9.3 mi.)

  • Satellite view of a region of the Moon that is mostly flat but features some small craters.

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