Above: Gene Cernan salutes the largest U.S. flag deployed during the Apollo missions, on December 12, 1972, at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
Behind him stands the LM Challenger and the lunar rover that traversed the greatest distance of any on the Moon‘s surface, some 22 miles (35 km).
This stereo image was taken by Jack Schmitt, the only geologist to walk on the Moon. The long baseline between the two camera positions for
these images produces an effect that makes the scene look a bit like a LEGO project! NASA/JSC
Below: Neil Armstrong
stands beside the LM.
Also visible are the
U.S. flag and the solar
wind experiment,
which was flown on all
the Apollo missions.
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