Apollo 14: Rickshaw Tracks Across the Moon
Explanation:
Brilliant sunlight glints off tracks gently winding across the
the Moon's
Frau Maro highlands. The tracks were made by
the Apollo 14 crew's two-wheeled
Modularized Equipment Transporter (MET), fondly
known as the "rickshaw".
The MET was designed as an aid to surface exploration. Serving
as a workbench with a place for the lunar handtools, it also
carried cameras, sample containers, spare film and a Lunar
Surface Penetrometer.
The path outlined in the lunar soil leads away from
Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell's Lunar landing Module,
tracing the path of their first venture across the
lunar landscape.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
