Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2019 November 23

                    Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3 Stereo View
     Image Credit: NASA, Apollo 12, Alan Bean - Stereo Image Copyright:
                                 Kevin Frank

   Explanation: Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western
   Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon. The 3D view features Apollo
   12 astronaut Pete Conrad visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft 50 years
   ago in November of 1969. Surveyor 3 had landed at the site on the
   inside slope of a small crater about 2 1/2 years earlier in April of
   1967. Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater wall, Apollo 12's
   Lunar Module Intrepid touched down less than 200 meters (650 feet)
   away, easy moonwalking distance from the robotic Surveyor spacecraft.
   The stereo image was carefully created from two separate pictures
   (AS12-48-7133, AS12-48-7134) taken on the lunar surface. They depict
   the scene from only slightly different viewpoints, approximating the
   separation between human eyes.

                       Tomorrow's picture: glasses off
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