604 a
Charles Duke

Rover tracks leading to the Descartes landing site seen during the traverse back from station 13

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 3, 168:55:13 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso [NASA AS16-117-18755]

604 b
Charles Duke

Palmetto Crater seen during the traverse from station 13 back to
the Descartes landing site

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 3, 169:01:07 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 AS16-117-18770” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

604 c
John Young

The LM Orion seen at the end of the traverse back to the landing site

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 3, 169:13:33 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso [NASA AS16-116-18678]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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604 a
A view of the smooth terrain in the general area of the of the station 13 geology site, photographed by Duke from the Lunar Rover shortly after leaving the station.
The tracks in the foreground were made on the earlier outbound trip to North Ray Crater. Stone Mountain forms the skyline in the background.

“You can see the Rover tracks everywhere we drove. Can’t get lost on the Moon! Just make a U-turn and follow your tracks home!”, exclaimed Charles Duke (Constantine, p. 104).

168:55:05 Duke: Okay, I think you...I think we could make it up over there, John, if you broke (meaning “turned”) right here, but I guess you want to follow the old (outbound) tracks. We were pretty close to the rim there for one time.
168:55:13 Young: Yeah, we’ll get there.
168:55:14 Duke: Yeah. (Pause) We know this way works.
168:55:19 Young: Yes, sir. Let’s not do any R&D (Research and Development). Unnecessarily, that is.

604 b
A frame from a Rover photographic sequence taken by Duke on the rim of Palmetto Crater while Young turned the Rover in a counter-clockwise circle, showing the south and east rims.

169:00:10 Duke: Hey, John. (Turn) right, babe. Look at that! Hook a right, please. Get this old pick-a-chur (sic). (Pause) Okay, Tony. We’re gonna to drive over to the rim of Palmetto, which is a pretty good sight.
169:00:34 England (Mission Control): Okay.
169:00:36 Duke: And, we see some blocks on the inner rim; but nothing that really appears to be outcrop. But it’s really a deep crater, Tony. It’s...
169:00:53 Young: I don’t see the bottom.
169:00:54 Duke: We can’t see the bottom, and we’re right on the rim. It must be a 100 meters or so deep.
169:01:01 Young: Pictures of it, Charlie?
169:01:02 Duke: No, I didn’t get it. I thought we were going to do a 1...3...180... [meaning a full 360° circle.]
169:01:05 Young: Okay. Here we go.
169:01:07 Duke: Okay. (Pause) Okay, starting now: click - click - click - click - click - click. Okay, that’s about a fourshotter. It might not be completely overlapped, but I think it will be good enough.

604 c
The TV camera and the high-gain antenna of the Rover are in the foreground. Just to the left of the LM is the 16-m crater overflown by the crew during the landing. To the right of the LM the lunar-science station is hidden behind the TV camera.

“The dark areas around the LM are vehicle and boot tracks, which reflect the intense activity associated with the vehicle, ALSEP deployment, and sample collection. The white area in the right horizon is composed of South Ray Crater approximately 6 km in the distance. The light color is from the blanket of material that was ejected from the crater when it was formed. Stone Mountain forms the skyline in the left background” (from NASA SP-315, p. 4.19).

169:11:24 Duke: We ought to see the old beauty (meaning the LM) when we top the rise here. (Pause) John just ran over a basketball-size rock with the right wheel and just...There she is, John! [...]
169:12:12 England (Mission Control): Okay. If you can recognize an edge of the ray in the neighborhood of 50 meters north of the ALSEP area (lunar-science station), that would be a good place to pick Station 10-Prime. (Pause) Our photo shows the edge of the ray in there. [...]
169:13:33 Duke: Okay, John. Let me get a picture of that. That is beautiful. [...]
169:13:48 Duke: I can’t believe that big hole there. I just can’t believe it; right behind her (the LM). (Pause) [Duke is talking about the 16-m crater that is directly east of the LM.]