James Irwin

Panorama of Hadley Canyon and the Apennine mountains viewed from station 10

Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, EVA 3, 166:17:56 GET

Unique hand mosaic of seven vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper numbered “NASA AS15-85-11171 to AS15-85-11182” in black in top margin, overall size 25 x 114cm
25 x 114cm

NASA SP-289, appendix D, figure D-15; Light, plate 90; Constantine, p.85

Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Moon:
From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, September 2018-January 2019 and February-May 2019,
exhibition catalogue, p. 67, no. 67.

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Lot Essay

From left to right, Mount Hadley, the Swann Range, Silver Spur, Mount Hadley Delta with St George Crater punched into its side are part of the front range of the Apennine mountains which rise 4,200m above the floor of the Sea of Rains. Hadley Canyon is at the right of the image.

The summit of Mount Hadley Delta is about 18 kilometers away, the diameter of St. George Crater is 2.4 km.
Rover tracks in the mid distance come from station 9A.

166:17:56 Scott: Right there on the rim (to take the panorama). Then you get the crater and you can get all over the place. Then I can take the 500 from up there, too. (Long Pause)
166:18:56 Scott: Okay, Joe. The crater is very uniform. It has debris on the order of, oh, a foot or so almost throughout. No accumulation of talus at the bottom; and it’s got fines covering everything, nothing really sharply exposed. And most of the fragments are subangular and it looks like nonvesicular, although I do see one highly vesicular one right in the bottom. And it’s about 60 meters across and maybe, oh, 10 meters deep, smooth sides, and a very slightly raised rim.
166:19:35 Irwin: Dave, let me turn (for the panorama)...
166:19:36 Scott: Ooop. I’m sorry.
166:19:37 Irwin: I’ll just complete this.
166:19:41 Scott: And, as craters go around here, it’s deep. (Long Pause)
166:19:57 Allen: Jim, are you taking your pan, now?
166:20:02 Irwin: Yeah. Pan’s complete