Apollo Gallery

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This pan of the Apollo 11 "east crater" has a bit of a story behind it as, apparently,
Neil Armstrong was not meant to venture so far from the LM (45m).

He obviously got bored with picking up rocks as he ran to photograph this crater rather than collect documented samples.
The first thing mission control knew about it was when they developed the photos!

Earthrise from Apollo 11

Above is a 180 degree pan of Apollo 15 station 2, assembled from a series of photos.

It shows the view from the lower slopes of Mount Hadley Delta. The valley in the middle of the panorama is Hadley Rille, an ancient lava channel. The rille is about a mile wide - much bigger than it looks. Also prominent to the right are the hills of the Swann Range and the bulk of Mount Hadley, mostly in shadow.

Above is a full 360 degree pan of Apollo 15 station 9, assembled from a series of photos.

The station was to sample the small rubbly crater in the middle of the picture and also gives a fine view of the mountains of the Appenine front.

The area around the crater Aristarchus, photographed from Apollo 15.

The three large craters are from left to right Herodotus, Aristarchus and the ruined crater Prinz.

Several volcanic vents and lava channels are visible, including the start of the very large Schroter's valley below Aristarchus.

Craters Macrobius a and b, taken during Apollo 15

These are typical small simple lunar impact craters a few miles across

View of the Apollo 16 landing site. Stone mountain lies beyond the lunar module.

View of the last Apollo landing site in the Taurus Littrow valley, taken from the Apollo 17 lunar module.

The exact landing site was in the middle of the valley, just right of the distant command module in this picture.

Astronaut Jack Schmitt unloading the lunar rover on the edge of Shorty crater, the site of the discovery of the famous orange soil on Apollo 17.

This crater was visited because the dark surface surrounding it suggested that it might be a volcanic vent.
The dark material (and the orange soil) was ancient volcanic ash but it had merely been exposed by an ordinary and much later impact crater.

A spectacular view of the Crescent Earth over the Moon, taken from Apollo 17