490 a
Stuart Roosa

Sunset over farside lands near Crater Chaplygin

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, orbit 14

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 AS14-72-9954” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

490 b
Stuart Roosa

Telephotograph of the farside King Crater

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, orbit 14

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 AS14-72-9971” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

490 c
Stuart Roosa

The lunar horizon over Crater Alphonsus

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, orbit 26

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 AS14-73-10095” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

490 d
Stuart Roosa

Crater Parry near the Fra Mauro landing site

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, orbit 26

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14-73-10114” in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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490 a
This oblique telephotograph from magazine 72/L taken looking southeast through the 500mm lens shows an area to the northwest of Crater Chaplygin (Latitude / Longitude: 5.5° S / 146° E).

The low-angle illumination near the terminator emphasizes gentle relief features with lengthening shadows.

490 b
This oblique photograph from magazine 72/L taken looking northeast through the 500mm telephoto lens shows the rim and western portion of the 76-km Crater King including its terraced inner wall, floor and central peak (cut off at right). The crater center was approximately 350 km north of the spacecraft when the photographs were taken. Latitude / longitude: 4° N / 120° E.

“It takes two hours to make an orbit of the Moon but I sure wish we’d have the luxury that you could just point the spacecraft down and coast one entire orbit of the Moon without any experiments, without any radio transmissions, any updates, and just spend one entire orbit doing nothing but just looking at the Moon.”
Stuart Roosa (Chaikin, Voices, p.173)

490 c
Oblique view taken with magazine 73/M and the 250mm telephoto lens southwestward across the 119-km Crater Alphonsus located on the lunar highlands on the eastern end of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds). The bright mound at the extreme right is the central peak of the crater. The 40-km Crater Alpetragius (southwest of Alphonsus Crater) is in the right background. The 96-km Crater Arzachel is in the left background.
Latitude / longitude: 15° S / 3° W.

490 d
Oblique view taken with magazine 73/M and the 250mm telephoto lens toward the 48-km Crater Parry (bottom); attached to the west and southwest rim of Parry is the eastern portion of the 60-km crater Bonpland (top). Rima Parry crosses the region in the center. Parry and Bonpland are attached to the southeast rim of the walled plain Fra Mauro (right).
Latitude / longitude: 7.5° S / 16° W.

“Stuart Roosa was asked also to get a number of other photos of the lunar surface, in areas that had not been well covered in earlier missions. Stu produced some great photos of the surface, rotating the command module Kitty Hawk to compensate for the motion of the image.”
Alan Shepard (NASA SP-350, p. 234)