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Taken by the automatic Fairchild metric camera mounted on the SIM bay of the Service Module and operated by Ronald Evans

The border between the Sea of Tranquillity and the Sea of Serenity

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, orbit 36

Unreleased photograph, large format vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 25.4 x 25.4cm (10 x 10in), numbered “AS17 1659” in margin (NASA MSC)

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Taken by the automatic Fairchild metric camera mounted on the SIM bay of the Service Module
and operated by Ronald Evans

Orbital view of Mons Huysgens, the tallest mountain of the Moon

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, orbit 65

Unreleased photograph, large format vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 25.4 x 25.4cm (10 x 10in), numbered “AS17 2431” in margin (NASA MSC)
25.4 x 25.4cm (10 x 10in)

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The photograph was taken looking south south west with the 3-inch focal length from an altitude of 109 km and a Sun elevation of 30°.

The 18-km Crater Dawes is at the bottom left and the 41-km Crater Plinius in the center; with the Sea of Serenity below and the Sea of Tranquillity above. The 24-km Crater Jansen is at the extreme left; the 24-km Crater Ross and the 20-km Crater Maclear are at the right near the western edge of the Sea of Tranquillity. The 26-km Crater Arago is near the horizon.
Latitude / longitude: 16.5° N / 24.3° E.

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The photograph was taken looking south toward the southwestern portion of the Apeninne mountain range with the 3-inch focal length from an altitude of 114 km and a Sun elevation of 31°.

Mons Huysgens is in the center of image, rising 5,500 m above the plain of the south-eastern Sea of Rains (bottom right of image).

The Sea of Vapors is at top left and Seething Bay at top right.
Latitude / longitude: 19.6° N / 2.8° W.