Posted on 02/04/2021 5:09:06 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Fifty years ago this Friday, Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchell snapped a series of photos of the lunar surface while looking out a window, assembled into this detailed mosaic by Apollo Lunar Surface Journal editor Eric Jones. The view looks across the Fra Mauro highlands to the northwest of the landing site after the Apollo 14 astronauts had completed their second and final walk on the Moon. Prominent in the foreground is their Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled, rickshaw-like device used to carry tools and samples. Near the horizon at top center is a 1.5 meter wide boulder dubbed Turtle rock. In the shallow crater below Turtle rock is the long white handle of a sampling instrument, thrown there javelin-style by Mitchell. Mitchell's fellow moonwalker and first American in space, Alan Shepard, also used a makeshift six iron to hit two golf balls. One of Shepard's golf balls is just visible as a white spot below Mitchell's javelin.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and left side of the image.
This is a photo where you will want to use the process for zooming in and scanning the high-definition version of the photo which is described in comment #1 above. The instrument handle and golf ball are near the top center of the photograph near the top of the light colored area and in front of the big rock. You cannot see them without zooming in.
‘It was 50 years ago today
The Apollo 14 came to stay
Yeah it’s gonna be here for a while
Lunar Modules always make us smile
So may I introduce to you....
They need to get those astronauts back up there and pull a good police call.
Junk laying everywhere.
Trash everywhere. Handles, golf balls, cheeseburger wrappers...
That’s an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
It would be easy to mistake that goblet of mead on the right for a thruster of some sort.
50 years ago, for all of its flaws and troubles, America was 1000 times better, and freer, than it is today. God help us all.
They traveled all that way to the moon to get better reception with the Antare you see casting a shadow.
I think NASA misspelled antenna.....
Americans always get what they vote for even if fraud is involved.
If you blow up the picture a bit there is a strange orange spot just above the horizon near the center if the picture.
I saw that spot too. I could not tell if it was a light reflecting off the window of the Lunar Module or if it was a red giant star or even Mars.
Dirt on lens...............
Doh!!! I hate when that happens.
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