Post by Hill on Mar 28, 2015 21:17:23 GMT
The crew of the last Apollo mission were Eugene A. Cernan (Commander), Harrison H. Schmitt (Lunar Module Pilot) and Ronald E. Evans(Command Module Pilot).
From the NASA Apollo mission site:
"The lunar landing site was the Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area. This site was picked for Apollo 17 as a location where rocks both older and younger than those previously returned from other Apollo missions, as well as from Luna 16 and 20 missions, might be found.
The mission was the final in a series of three J-type missions planned for the Apollo Program. These J-type missions can be distinguished from previous G- and H-series missions by extended hardware capability, larger scientific payload capacity and by the use of the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle, or LRV.
Scientific objectives of the Apollo 17 mission included, geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features in a preselected area of the Taurus-Littrow region; deploying and activating surface experiments; and conducting in-flight experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and transearth coast. These objectives included deployed experiments, such as the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, or ALSEP, with a heat flow experiment; lunar seismic profiling, or LSP; lunar surface gravimeter, or LSG; lunar atmospheric composition experiment, or LACE; and lunar ejecta and meteorites, or LEAM. The mission also included lunar sampling and lunar orbital experiments. Biomedical experiments included the Biostack II experiment and the BIOCORE experiment."
The image is from the LRO site. I have also activated a strip of background imagery from the Featured Satellite Images layer of the viewer and clicked on the yellow square nearby. So by use of links and overlays you can add some significant and much more detailed imagery to the default Google Moon Imagery. I also suggest after viewing the orbital imagery that you turn on the Apollo Missions layers which is annotated and includes lunar surface panoramas photographed by the astronauts.
