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a14_v_bw_o_n (AS14-64-9099)

The Station C1 white boulder, now known as Saddle Rock, is on the local horizon to the right of center, as indicated in a detail

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14det9099.jpg.

 

See also:

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/LROC_M168319885L_SaddleRock.jpg

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14-B2-B3.jpg

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14-B3-Cp.jpg

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/LROC_M168319885L_SaddleRock.jpg

All above credit the ALSJ & LROC websites.

 

Excellent reading pertaining to their excruciating search:

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.tocone.html

 

 

Excruciating...how close they actually were...Saddle Rock is

roughly 50 meters from the rim of Cone Crater. I think the rise/"ridge" visible in this photo (with the split boulder on its cusp), is the rim of the crater.

 

lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/363

Credit: the phenomenal LROC website

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Uploaded on November 28, 2018