Apollo 14: A View from Antares
Explanation:
Fifty years ago
this Friday, Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon.
Toward the end of the stay astronaut
Ed
Mitchell snapped
a series
of photos of the lunar surface while looking out a window,
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,
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.
Specific
rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
