Apollo 14: A View from Antares
Explanation:
Forty years ago,
while looking out the window of Apollo 14's
Lunar Module Antares, astronaut
Ed Mitchell snapped
a
series of photos of the lunar surface,
assembled
into this detailed mosaic by
Apollo Lunar
Surface Journal editor Eric Jones.
The view looks across the
Fra Mauro highlands to the northwest
of the landing site after the Apollo 14 astronauts had completed
their second and final
walk
on the Moon.
Prominent in the foreground is their Modular Equipment Transporter
(
MET),
a two-wheeled, rickshaw-like device used to carry tools and samples.
Near the horizon at top center is a 1.5 meter wide boulder dubbed
Turtle rock.
In the shallow crater below Turtle rock
is the long white handle of a sampling instrument,
thrown there javelin-style by Mitchell.
Mitchell's fellow moonwalker and first American in space,
Alan Shepard, also used a makeshift six iron to
hit two golf balls.
One of Shepard's golf balls is just visible as
a white
spot below Mitchell's javelin.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
