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Keywords: Mare Marginis AS17-M-0895-0900-0905.jpg These are three views of Mare Marginis on the moon taken by the mapping camera of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 facing north-northeast from an altitude of an average of 124 km on Revolution 27 of the mission At the right is the east side of Mare Marginis with the craters Jansky Jansky F and the elongated Jansky D in the foreground and the eastern mare is in the upper left The center photo shows the central mare with the prominent crater Goddard sourrounded by light materials the crater Ibn Yunus immediately to its east Goddard C to the west half of the large crater Neper in the foreground and the crater Hubble far to the north near the horizon The swirls of light material in the mare thought to be caused by magnetic fields are visible in this photo The left photo shows the western mare more easily visible from Earth with disconnected lakes of basalt and the crater Cannon These photos were taken within minutes of each other The sun elevation drops from 80 degrees at right to 70 degrees at left as the Command module America orbited the moon en wikipedia Original text Apollo 17 Mapping camera images reduced in size by 25 and spliced in Gimp <br>The original images are in the public domain because they are works of the U S Government NASA <br/> Immediate source Lunar and Planetary Institute Apollo Image Atlas<br>Mapping Camera Image Catalog Apollo 17 http //www lpi usra edu/resources/apollo/frame/ AS17-M-0895 AS17-M-0895 http //www lpi usra edu/resources/apollo/frame/ AS17-M-0900 AS17-M-0900 http //www lpi usra edu/resources/apollo/frame/ AS17-M-0905 AS17-M-0905 created 2013 original 1972<br/> 2013-12-24 first version ; 2013-12-24 last version James Stuby based on NASA image<br/> Jstuby wikipedia en Jstuby at https //en wikipedia org en wikipedia Cc-zero Original upload log en wikipedia Mare+Marginis+AS17-M-0895-0900-0905 jpg wikitable - 2013-12-24 05 38 1751×523× 497956 bytes Jstuby Cropped edges - 2013-12-24 04 15 1761×600× 548101 bytes Jstuby These are three views of Mare Marginis on the moon taken by the mapping camera of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 facing north-northeast from an altitude of an average of 124 km on Revolution 27 of the mission At Mare Marginis
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