283 a
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Telephoto panorama of Ariadaeus Rille

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 24

Unique hand mosaic of five vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, overall size 33 x 49cm, numbered “NASA AS10-31-4639 to AS10-31-4646” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

283 b
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Crater Godin at Sunrise

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 24

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS10-31-4647” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

283 c
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Hyginus Rille at the lunar nearside terminator

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 24

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS10-31-4652” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

33 x 49cm (13 x 19¹⁄₄in)

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283 a
A superb panorama taken through the 250mm telephoto lens looking northwest (almost
perpendicularly to the motion of the spacecraft following its westward equatorial orbital path). The low Sunlight close to the lunar nearside terminator emphasizes details of the relief.
Over 300 kilometres long, the linear Ariadaeus Rille is named after the 10.4-km crater (at the right), which marks its eastern end. The circular crater below the rille to the left is the 13-km Crater Silberschlag. The dark patch at the top right is the floor of the 46-km Crater Boscovich. Its surface is crossed by another smaller rille system designated Rimae Boscovich.
Latitude / longitude: 6.6° N / 14.7° E.

283 b
A great photograph of the 34-km Crater Godin located in the highlands that separates the Sea of Tranquillity from Central Bay. This view taken looking west through the 250mm telephoto lens shows long shadows near the lunar terminator. At the midpoint a central peak rises from the dark. Latitude / longitude: 2.1° N / 10.6° E.

From the mission transcript on a later orbit (orbit 29):

132:29:05 Engle (Mission Control): Boy, that one really looks rough. I think we got that as Godin crater. Is that affirmative?
132:29:13 Cernan: That’s affirmative and the walls are very light, whitish-gray and the bottom is a dirty, dirty, tan. And it’s got a central peak that - It’s got very big boulders in the bottom. We can see from here. And it’s got on the - On the far side, on the upper side of your screen, the side is slumped down in stages, it appears like, and it’s not slumped down smoothly like you see on the bottom side. It’s mostly in shadow, but you might be able to make it out.

283 c
This photograph was taken looking northwest through the 250mm telephoto lens. Hyginus Rille is about 3 km wide and more than 200 km long and is located to the northeast of Central Bay. The 11-km Crater Hyginus is deeper than the rille, and lies at the bend where they intersect. Latitude / longitude: 8.2° N / 7.1° E.

From the mission transcript on a later orbit (orbit 29):
132:32:46 Cernan: And as we see an area - We’re seeing down in front of us a number of rilles that look very much like we saw back on Landing Site number 2 area. We’re just beginning to see some of these areas because they’re coming into sunlight now. The area right here, appears to be very familiar in terms of number of ridges and Highway 1 [U.S.1] type of rille, and I see again another area where a very wide rille, probably three-quarters of the widest Highway 1, where there’s another, what could be or what would appear to be a strike-slip fault-type of movement between one side and the other.