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| Keywords: Mare Crisium AS17-M-0913-0919-0924.jpg These are three views of Mare Crisium on the moon taken by the mapping camera of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 facing north-northeast from an altitude of an average of 118 km on Revolution 27 of the mission At the right is the east margin of Mare Crisium with the north tip of Promontorium Agarum visible in the foreground and Mare Anguis near the central horizon The crater Eimmart is visible in both the right and central photos as a bright patch The center photo shows an obvious lack of large craters in the mare indicating a relatively young age of the basalt and the crater Eimmart C is visible as a ring at the edge of the mare near the top center The left photo shows the western margin of the mare with the crater Peirce larger and Swift smaller in the mare and the large crater Cleomedes near the central horizon The rays of the crater Proclus further to the west not shown are prominent in the mare These photos were taken within minutes of each other The sun elevation drops from 60 degrees at right to 46 degrees at left as the Command module America orbited the moon en wikipedia Apollo 17 Mapping camera images reduced in size by 25 and spliced in Gimp <br>The original images are in the public domain because they are works of the U S Government NASA <br/> Immediate source Lunar and Planetary Institute Apollo Image Atlas<br>Mapping Camera Image Catalog Apollo 17 http //www lpi usra edu/resources/apollo/frame/ AS17-M-0913 AS17-M-0913 http //www lpi usra edu/resources/apollo/frame/ AS17-M-0919 AS17-M-0919 http //www lpi usra edu/resources/apollo/frame/ AS17-M-0924 AS17-M-0924 created 2013 original 1972 James Stuby based on NASA image<br/> Jstuby wikipedia en Cc-zero Original upload log en wikipedia Mare+Crisium+AS17-M-0913-0919-0924 jpg wikitable - 2013-12-22 05 29 1768×543× 507981 bytes Jstuby These are three views of Mare Crisium on the moon taken by the mapping camera of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 facing north-northeast from an altitude of an average of 118 km on Revolution 27 of the mission At Mare Crisium | ||||
