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Eugene Cernan

The Lunar Rover at its final VIP parking site

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 170:19:48 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS17-143-21934” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

675 b
Harrison Schmitt

The LM Challenger and the American flag in the Valley of Taurus-Littrow

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 170:22:00 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 AS17-134-20508” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

675 c
Eugene Cernan

View of the last scientific experiment deployed at the Taurus-Littrow landing site

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 170:26:50 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 X 10in), numbered “NASA AS17-143-21941” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Cernan took this excellent picture of the Lunar Rover at its final parking place about 150 meters
east of the LM.
The rover was positioned so that its TV camera could record the LM’s liftoff with its high-gain antenna pointed to Earth for transmission.
Harrison Schmitt can be seen through the high-gain antenna (at the lower left) of the Lunar Rover, returning from the lunar science station (ALSEP site) to the LM.
West and Old Family Mountain forms the background.

The image “gives good definition of the chevron pattern on the wire-mesh tires. One seismic charge remains in the transporter” (ALSJ caption for AS17-143-21934).

170:19:48 Cernan: Okay; let me get one parting shot (photo) one of the finest running little machines I’ve ever had the pleasure to drive.
170:20:12 Parker: Okay. And, Geno, some people down here are concerned about whether you’ve opened the battery covers or not.
170:20:20 Cernan: Yes, sir; they’re open.
170:20:22 Parker: I copy that.
170:20:29 Cernan: Oh, what a nice little machine! Parked on a little downslope, but at the heading you want, and I guess Ed’s satisfied with the TV response, huh?
170:20:41 Parker: Roger. We’re satisfied with the TV, Gene. We’re ready for you to take the EP number 3.
170:20:50 Cernan: Good old Mother Earth is right smack in the center (of the bore site on the high-gain antenna of the Rover).

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Schmitt took this picture of the LM and American flag on his way back from the lunar science station (ALSEP site) for close-out at the end of EVA-3.
The East Massif provides a backdrop.

170:29:31 Cernan: You ready to go on up?
170:29:33 Schmitt: Well, I don’t know. Got to take my camera off. I got another batch of pictures...the LM and the flag and…

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Cernan took this photo to document the location of Seismic Charge 3, which he placed 35 meters west of the SEP transmitter and 110 meters from the LM.

Schmitt is out of view, working at the MESA behind the LM.
Geophone Rock, the US flag and the lunar-science station are visible in the distance to the right of the LM.
The South Massif and West Family Mountain are in the background. Rover tracks and footprints are in the foreground.

170:26:42 Cernan: Where are you, Jack?
170:26:44 Schmitt: I’m at the MESA.
170:26:46 Cernan: Okay.
170:26:49 Schmitt: Trying to snap a snap.
170:26:50 Cernan: I need a “locator” (photograph) here to the LM. (Pause)
170:27:05 Parker (Mission Control): Okay; and, 17, we need you guys in the LM in one-five minutes - fifteen minutes - because of oxygen constraints.
170:27:16 Cernan: Okay, Bob, my pictures are taken; I’m on the way. (Cernan is moving along with a long, easy skipping stride.) Oh, boy! Where else can you do this?