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Credit & Copyright: Apollo 15, David Scott,
NASA
Explanation:
Apollo 15
astronaut
James
Irwin works on the first
Lunar Roving Vehicle,
before he and fellow astronaut
David
Scott take it out for a drive.
Sloping up behind the
lunar module
"Falcon" on the left are lunar mountains
Hadley Delta and Apennine Front,
while about 5 kilometers behind Irwin is
St. George Crater. The explorations conducted during the
Apollo lunar missions
discovered much about our Moon,
including that the Moon is made of ancient rock, that the Moon's
composition is similar to Earth's, that life is not
evident there, that the Moon underwent a great hot melting in its distant
past, that the Moon has suffered from numerous impacts as shown by its
craters, and that the Moon's surface is covered by a layer of rock
fragments and dust.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Moon - Apollo 15
Publications with words: Moon - Apollo 15
See also:
- APOD: 2026 August 25 Á Earths Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses
- APOD: 2026 May 11 Á Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
- APOD: 2026 May 9 Á Messier Craters in Stereo
- APOD: 2026 April 15 Á The ISS Transits the Moon
- APOD: 2026 April 11 Á Artemis II: Flight Day 6
- The Bay of Rainbows
- Earthset from Orion