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Image: Apollo 17 Landing Site

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Description: View of Apollo 17 Landing Site. The optic axis of the Mapping Camera is at a fixed angle relative to the spacecraft and is vertical when the spacecraft is in normal SIM Bay attitude. Mapping Camera stereo coverage is obtained by overlap, nominally 78 percent, of consecutive frames along the groundtrack. Oblique views area obtained by spacecraft attitude changes. Based on AS17-M-0447
Title: Apollo 17 Landing Site
Credit: Internet Archive (other link)
Author: NASA
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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