HTTP:: LRO Image Shows Apollo 14 Landing Site
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NASA's new Moon probe, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has recently beamed back amazing images showing the landing site of the harsh Apollo 14 mission, as well as the tracks the two crew members left behind in their failed journey to a peculiar crater nearby. The landing took place on February 5, 1971, and featured astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell in their Antares lander, Space reports. The new picture, which was released to the public on Wednesday, clearly shows that the astronauts made to about 100 feet (30 meters) of the peculiar Cone Crater, before having to come back to the lunar module. The Apollo 14 astronauts were charged with exploring the Fra Mauro highland, a rocky region with a lot of hills. Having already beamed back another image of this landing site, and of Tranquility Base â€" the site of the first Moon landing, by Apollo 11 astronauts â€" the LRO now used its main instrument, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), to snap a more d!
etailed picture of the historic site. The lower left side of the image reveals a scientific experiment that was set up by Shepard and Mitchell. The arrows stretching in the central side of the picture show the path that the two astronauts took on their way to Cone Crater. They are visible in slightly grayer nuances than the ground aroun...
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