https://apollo15hub.org/items/browse?tags=Lunar+Geography&output=atom2024-03-29T06:57:36-07:00Omekahttps://apollo15hub.org/items/show/258Endeavor during its 16th orbit, roughly one hour after the end of the SEVA.]]>2022-12-04T20:35:08-08:00
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Hadley Rille, Aerial Panoramic
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Aerial photo of the Apollo 15 landing site, including the lunar module. From the center of an image taken by the panoramic camera on Endeavor during its 16th orbit, roughly one hour after the end of the SEVA.
]]>https://apollo15hub.org/items/show/207Endeavor during its 16th orbit, just over 100km above the surface. Note that vertical dimensions are somewhat exaggerated from this angle.]]>2022-12-05T07:29:25-08:00
Aerial photo of the Apollo 15 landing site, including the lunar module. From a sequence of images taken by the metric camera on Endeavor during its 16th orbit, just over 100km above the surface. Note that vertical dimensions are somewhat exaggerated from this angle.
A labeled photo of the Apollo 15 landing site and the lunar mare, Palus Putredinis, taken from orbit. Al Worden, Command Module Pilot for the mission, describes the craters as resembling volcanic cinder cones.
The Tsiolkovsky Crater, photographed just after it appeared over the lunar horizon. This photo displays the albedo difference between the dark interior and the light-coloured peak.
079:13:57 Scott: And Houston. We're over Mare Crisium at the present time, and the sights are really striking. I guess some of the interesting things we've noticed is the variation in albedo from white to dark gray with many variations of gray in between. And many times, this albedo change appears without any significant change in topography, other than perhaps a - a mountain ridge or a chain or a wrinkle ridge or something, but there are many vari - variations in the albedo all over the surface. I guess our general consensus is that it's gray. We haven't noticed any brown yet.