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James Irwin

The Green Boulder in the valley of Hadley-Apennine station 6A

Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, EVA 2, 145:12:18 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS15-90-12199” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

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David Scott

James Irwin holding the Lunar Rover from sliding downhill, station 6A

Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, EVA 2, 145:15:16 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS15-86-11659” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Chaikin, Voices, p.91.

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Scott parked the rover near the boulder at a 15 degree slope, holding it to make sure it didn’t slide down the hill, while Irwin photographed the boulder and the landscape from the vantage point that was the highest location explored on the Apennine Front. Hadley Canyon and Hill 305 are in the right background.

145:12:20 Irwin: Well, let me take a picture here anyway.
145:12:22 Scott: Yeah take a picture. (Long Pause)
145:12:42 Irwin: Oh, you really... Let me hold that Rover and you come up and look at this, because this rock has got green in it, a light green...
145:12:48 Scott: Okay...
145:12:49 Irwin: ...color. Come on.
145:12:50 Scott: Okay; I’ll just stand here until you’re through...
145:12:51 Irwin: Yeah.
145:12:52 Scott: ...and then I’ll go up and take a look at it.
145:12:58 Irwin: The first green rock I’ve seen. Light green.

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The Rover was parked facing downhill on a 15 to 20 degree slope near a fresh crater next to the green boulder.
After Irwin examined the green boulder while Scott was at the Rover, they traded places and Irwin held the Lunar Rover from sliding downhill. The photograph shows the rover’s right rear wheel completely off the ground. In the foreground a lunar rake lies atop the boulder.

“Jim Irwin and I almost had Alan Bean do a painting of this scene,” remembered David Scott. “I researched pictures we took at the boulder because, if Al Bean were to do something that Jim and I thought was unique about our mission, what would it be?’ So, we talked about it, Jim and I. And we came up with the operation on the side of the hill and the footprints and whatever. And we focused on this photograph I’d taken of the boulder in which I tried to get some scaling by putting my tongs on the boulder and, in the background, you can see the Rover with the wheel off the ground. And that’s where Jim was holding it. And, in my mind, that’s one of the better pictures of the mission, because it tells so much. (A) there’s some great geology on that boulder; (B) there’s the tongs; (C) there’s the Rover; (D) we’re on a hill; and so on. It’s got a good story behind it. But the Rover was so light when we got off it, it was sliding down
the hill, probably not only because of the slope but also the looseness of the material” (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 145:15:16 GET).