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Harrison Schmitt took his photograph looking uphill toward a group of boulders soon before they parked the Rover at station 7 in the North Massif at 450m from station 6.
Wessex Cleft and the Sculptured Hills are in the background.

166:06:13 Schmitt: Oh; going into the Sun, I can’t see a thing to tell you about Wessex Cleft, that we haven’t already said.
166:06:22 Parker: Okay. Station 7 is nominally 208 and 3.3, but it’s any group of any significant boulders you want to stop at in reality.
166:06:31 Schmitt: Understand. (Pause) (To Gene) Ohhh, easy.
166:06:42 Cernan: You feel like you’re on a downslope over there?
166:06:43 Schmitt: Yeah. I feel like you’re about ready to spin out downhill any minute.

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A frame of the station 7 “near-field” panoramic sequence taken by Schmitt with his aim low at
11-feet focus in order to show the areas from which they would collect samples.

This photograph shows the base of the largest boulder (the station 7 boulder) sampled at this station located at the base of the North Massif, on a shallower slope than station 6, just above the break in slope between the valley floor and the massif.

166:10:08 Parker (Mission Control): And, Jack, what’s your frame count (on the Hasselblad camera)?
166:10:13 Schmitt: 131.
166:10:14 Parker: Okay. Press on.
166:10:23 Schmitt: Bob, I’m going to take the pan at 11 feet (focus), so you can see the fragments that we’re going to pick up here. Then we can take another one (panorama) for location work.

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The South Massif forms the skyline in the background.

166:14:23 Cernan: Did you get pictures of this thing here?
166:14:25 Schmitt: Yeah; well, not the big rock yet. Not in focus anyway.
166:14:29 Cernan: I got to do that.

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“Station 6 was sufficiently productive that, in the interest of saving time, Houston wanted them to
make station 7 only long enough for the crew to take a pan and collect a representative collection of small rock fragments” (from the ALSJ mission summary).

Cernan was taking a series of photographs to portray the station 7 boulder and caught Schmitt in the frame.
He is holding the hammer in his right hand with his chest-mounted Hasselblad camera and a sample bag clearly visible.

166:21:13 Cernan: Let me finish the stereo (photography) around the corner here.
166:21:19 Parker (Mission Control): Okay. And you guys have dropped the scoop there on the ground. And we’re ready for you guys to leave.
166:21:26 Schmitt: I know you are.

“We raised more questions than we answered. That’s the nature of field geology,” noted Harrison Schmitt (Chaikin, Voices, p.82).

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A frame from the panoramic sequence taken by Cernan uphill from the Lunar Rover at station 7 on the slope of the North Massif, 3.2 km away from the LM.

Schmitt is working at the Rover and changing his Hasselblad’s magazine.
Footprints made by the astronauts are visible as well as tracks made by the Lunar Rover.
The view looks toward the Valley of Taurus-Littrow with the East Massif in the background.

166:26:58 Cernan: Boy, Challenger looks a long way away. That’s 3 kilometers, huh? (Pause)
166:27:11 Schmitt: Yup. (Pause) Okay, mag’s changed.

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A frame from the station 7 panoramic sequence taken by Cernan just before the astronauts left for Station 8.

In order to take the panoramic view, Cernan has “gotten into a small crater uphill away from the rover that provides him with a fairly level place on which to stand. He then does a slow pirouette, staying on his toes as he does the photographic panorama” (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 166:26:19 GET).

166:25:56 Parker (Mission Control): Gene, you might spend your time taking a...
166:25:57 Cernan: It’s latched.
166:25:58 Parker: ...standard 74-foot pan while Jack is changing his mag, if you got a chance there.
166:26:07 Cernan: That’s a splendid idea, sir. And that’s exactly what I’ll do.
166:26:19 Cernan: I don’t mind going uphill, because it’s so much fun coming down. Down in my little hole here. Oh! That’s stability. That’s stability.