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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

    11/15/2024 12:26:55 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 31 replies
    NASA ^ | 15 Nov, 2024 | Image Credit: NASA, Apollo 12, Alan Bean - Stereo Image Copyright: Kevin Frank
    Explanation: Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon. The 3D anaglyph features Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in November of 1969. Surveyor 3 had landed at the site on the inside slope of a small crater about 2 1/2 years earlier in April of 1967. Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater wall, Apollo 12's Lunar Module Intrepid touched down less than 200 meters (650 feet) away, easy moonwalking distance from the robotic Surveyor spacecraft. This stereo image was carefully created from...