a12_v_bw_o_n (AS12-49-7247)
“A frame from a pan Pete took just before he and Al arrived at Sharp Crater. He is looking back toward Bench Crater, possibly to get his bearings. Pete and Al are coming down a slight slope toward Sharp Crater and it is an intervening ridge - rather than curvature of the Moon - that is hiding the lower portions of the LM and the S-Band antenna. Note how visible the rocks are because we can see the shadows they cast.”
Above paraphrased from the ALSJ, at/from:
www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a12/images12.html
I think the other protuberance above the lunar surface, further to the left of the erectable S-Band antenna, is the top portion of the drooped United States flag.
So, they were in the lower left corner of this amazing image, a little to the right of Sharp Crater, somewhere along the darkened paths marking their footprints:
lroc.im-ldi.com/news/uploads/M175428601RE_25cm_AP12_area.png
Credit: NASA/GSFC/LROC, School of Earth and Space Exploration, ASU website
a12_v_bw_o_n (AS12-49-7247)
“A frame from a pan Pete took just before he and Al arrived at Sharp Crater. He is looking back toward Bench Crater, possibly to get his bearings. Pete and Al are coming down a slight slope toward Sharp Crater and it is an intervening ridge - rather than curvature of the Moon - that is hiding the lower portions of the LM and the S-Band antenna. Note how visible the rocks are because we can see the shadows they cast.”
Above paraphrased from the ALSJ, at/from:
www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a12/images12.html
I think the other protuberance above the lunar surface, further to the left of the erectable S-Band antenna, is the top portion of the drooped United States flag.
So, they were in the lower left corner of this amazing image, a little to the right of Sharp Crater, somewhere along the darkened paths marking their footprints:
lroc.im-ldi.com/news/uploads/M175428601RE_25cm_AP12_area.png
Credit: NASA/GSFC/LROC, School of Earth and Space Exploration, ASU website