Apollo 15 lunar surface exploration,August 1971. Surveying at Station 7,near Spur Crater,during the Apollo 15 second lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA-2). Boot prints are at lower right. At upper right is a gnomon,a device used to provide scale and timings for the pictures. At upper centre,the small rock on top of the larger gray fragment is the 'Genesis' rock (sample number 15415),a sample of anorthosite a type of igneous rock. Apollo 15 was the fourth manned mission to land on the Moon. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent a total of 18.5 hours outside their spacecraft,carrying out three exploration trips (EVAs) with the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Photographed by Scott on 1 August 1971. | |
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