601 a
Charles Duke

The scoop stuck into the lunar surface at station 11

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 3, 167:17:24 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS16-106-17319” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

601 b
John Young

Close-up documenting geological investigations at station 11

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 3, 167:24:43 GET

Unreleased photograph, 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 AS16-116-18633” in red in top margin, with three filing holes in top margin

601 c
Charles Duke

John Young with House Rock in the background, station 11

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 3, 167:24:45 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) (NASA MSC) [NASA AS16-106-17336]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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601 a
Duke took this photograph to document a split piece of white rock 10 m west of the Rover near a large white Breccia boulder. The scoop provides scale and shadow in the picture (as a substitute for the gnomon that was broken earlier).

“In the back of my mind was, you never knew what was going to be behind the next rock. So it was like an Easter-egg hunt_What am I going to find next?” recalled Charles Duke (Chaikin, Voices, p. 82).

167:17:21 Young: You want to go down to this big boulder (meaning House Rock) down here?
167:17:24 Duke: I’d like to, in a minute. I wanted to make sure we get whatever this is up here on these white rocks.

601 b
Young took the photograph to document a “fillet sample” that the crew collected near a big white
Breccia boulder (whose base is visible at the top) 30 m west of the Rover using the rake and a sample bag. The tongs are used as a ‘gnomon’ to provide scale and shadow in the picture.

“Station 11 was characterized by an abundance of white Breccia boulders. An aphanitic, black rock was collected from the fillet area near the tongs” (NASA SP-315, p. 4.16).

167:23:53 Duke: They want a fillet (sample) up here, John. Could we get a fillet up there where that gnomon is? (Pause) I’ll get the cross-Sun.
167:24:02 Young: Okay. (Pause)
167:24:19 Duke: (Amused) I thought I’d use my little finger as a bag holder. (Pause) [Young raises the rake and pours.]
167:24:27 Duke: Good. Okay; that fillet is (sample bag) 417. Tony. [Duke spins the bag closed.]
167:24:33 England (Mission Control): Okay, 417. [...]
167:24:43 Young: Okay. I’ll get the down-Sun here.

601 c
Duke took this beautiful photograph to show the general location of a sample site indicated by the tongs near a large white Breccia boulder (left foreground) 30 m west of the Lunar rover on the rim of North Ray Crater.
Young carries the rake and sample bags in his left hand. Smoky Mountain forms the skyline; the large boulder in the background is House Rock, 240 m away.
The reflection of his photographer and his shadow are visible in his gold-plated visor.

167:24:45 Duke: I’ll try to get a “locator” from up here.

“Here we are! you know, and, Man, North Ray is even a lot more beautiful and mysterious
than we expected. And those surprises that would come to you [...] the House Rock.”
Charles Duke (Chaikin, Voices, p. 82)