Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3 Stereo View
Explanation:
Put
on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western
Ocean of Storms
on the surface of the Moon.
The 3D view features Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad
visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft
50 years ago in November of 1969.
Surveyor 3 had landed at the site
on the inside slope of a small crater
about 2 1/2 years earlier in April of 1967.
Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater wall, Apollo 12's
Lunar
Module Intrepid
touched down less than 200 meters (650 feet) away,
easy moonwalking distance from the robotic Surveyor spacecraft.
The stereo image was carefully created from two separate pictures
(AS12-48-7133, AS12-48-7134) taken
on the lunar surface.
They
depict the scene from only
slightly different viewpoints, approximating the separation
between human eyes.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
