680 a
Ronald Evans

Lunar sunset over farside Craters Rumford and Sniadecki

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, orbit 16

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 AS17-150-22943” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

680 b
Ronald Evans

Crater Aitken on the lunar farside

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

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 AS17-150-22965” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

680 c
Ronald Evans

The lunar nearside terminator over Crater Bessel seen from the orbiting Command Module America

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

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “AS17-154-23633” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

680 d
Ronald Evans

Lunar farside highlands and horizon near Gagarin Crater

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

Four unreleased photographs, vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS17-153-23553, AS17-153-23556, AS17-153-23558 and AS17-153-23560” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Evans orbited the Moon alone in the Command Module America while Cernan and Schmitt were visiting the lunar surface.

This photograph from magazine 150/LL taken looking south with the 80mm lens shows the lunar farside terminator (Sun elevation of 2°) from an altitude of 114km.
The 61-km Crater Rumford is partially in shadow in the background as is the 43-km Crater Sniadecki in the foreground. Latitude / longitude: 24.6° S / 169.5° W.

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This photograph of magazine 150/LL was taken by Evans over the floor of the 135-km Crater Aitken with the 80mm lens and a Sun elevation of 20° from an altitude of 118km. Latitude / longitude: 17.6° S / 171.9° E.

“The biggest problem, going around the Moon [...] is knowing, instantaneously, when you look out of the window, Where am I looking? You can’t keep track of where you are. You’re always interrupted to do something else or whatever. You’ve got to tell yourself ahead of time to figure out where you are, so that you know where to start looking for the next landmark, the next thing that is coming up,” said Ron Evans (Chaikin, Voices, p.41).

680 c
This photograph of magazine 154/QQ taken by Evans looking west with the 80 mm lens shows the abstract lunar landscape in the twilight of the terminator over the 16-km Crater Bessel in the
southern Sea of Serenity from an altitude of 112km.

“The terminator is strikingly different from the direct-down, twelve o’clock-high-type Sun. The
terminator tended to show up the great numbers of craters on the Moon, whereas in the bright sunlight the Moon looked kind of grayish and it was hard to pick out the craters,” remembered Ronald Evans (Schick and Van Haaften, p.124).

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Evans took these series of oblique photographs from magazine 53/MM south west over Craters Barbier (66 km in diameter, foreground) and Sierpinski (69 km in diameter in the mid distance) located to the south east of Gagarin Crater on the southern hemisphere on the lunar farside from an altitude of 120km with the 250mm telephoto lens and a Sun elevation between 14 and 17°. Latitude / longitude: 27° S / 155.9° E