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                               2020 January 17

                  Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit
         Gene Cernan, Apollo 17, NASA; Anaglyph by Patrick Vantuyne

   Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this awesome
   stereo view of another world. The scene was recorded by Apollo 17
   mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one orbit before
   descending to land on the Moon. The stereo anaglyph was assembled from
   two photographs (AS17-147-22465, AS17-147-22466) captured from his
   vantage point on board the Lunar Module Challenger as he and Dr.
   Harrison Schmitt flew over Apollo 17's landing site in the
   Taurus-Littrow Valley. The broad, sunlit face of the mountain dubbed
   South Massif rises near the center of the frame, above the dark floor
   of Taurus-Littrow to its left. Beyond the mountains, toward the lunar
   limb, lies the Moon's Mare Serenitatis. Piloted by Ron Evans, the
   Command Module America is visible in orbit in the foreground against
   the South Massif's peak.

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