664 a
Harrison Schmitt

The Lunar Rover parked in a field of boulders at Van Serg Crater’s station 9

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 168:06:19 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS17-142-21794” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

664 b
Eugene Cernan

Lunar rocks on the rim of Van Serg Crater at station 9

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 168:09:10 and 168:19:47 GET

Two unreleased photographs, vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the versos, numbered “NASA AS17-146-22416 and AS17-146-22421” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

664 c
Eugene Cernan

Sunstruck photograph of the Lunar Rover in the desolate lunarscape, station 9

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 168:22:06 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 AS17-146-22448” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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664 a
Schmitt took the photograph as a “locator” to the rover as he was standing on the rim of Van Serg Crater.
The East Massif forms the skyline in the background.

168:06:19 Schmitt: (Turning toward the Rover) (I’d better take a) “locator” (photograph). Afraid I haven’t been doing my duty on “locators”, occasionally.

664 b
These photographs were taken to document the location of samples Cernan and Schmitt collected on the rim of Van Serg Crater.

664 c
This photograph (a frame from a panoramic sequence taken by Cernan from the rim of Van Serg Crater) was sunstruck, overexposed by sunlight that leaked into the camera, giving a surreal pink color to the lunar surface in the foreground.

The Rover is parked in the field of boulders to the left of picture, with its antenna pointed towards Earth. The East Massif is in the background.

Station 9 was the last geology stop before returning to the LM.

“Every minute the explorers stayed outside they ticked time off their walkback constraint, the safety limit that would allow them to survive a return to the LM on foot if the rover failed or became disabled” (Reynolds, p. 193).