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| Detail from Jack
Schmitt's Station 3 pan, centered on Ballet
Crater. A lobe of the Lincoln-Lee Scarp is in the
middle distance. In the distance, Hanover Crater
is just east of the scarp trace on the lower slopes of
the North Massif. Assembly by Eric Jones.
(Click on the image for a larger version.) See,
also, Alan Bean's painting
of this scene. |
| Figure 7a from the USGS
Apollo 17 Professional Paper showing the appoximate
locations of Stations 3 and 4 and of three explosive
charges (LRV-3, 5, and 6) deployed during the
traverse. The plotted location of Station 3 is north
and slightly east of a 25-m crater (labeled 'a') at a
distance of about one-third the distance of the 25-m
crater from a similar-sized crater (labeled 'b') at the
center of Lara. |
| Station 3 map from the
Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report. Ballet Crater is
at the upper left. The pattern of smaller,
nearby craters mapped on the basis of Hasselblad
images taken by the crew help make an identification in
LROC images. |
| Tentative indentification
of Ballet Crater in LROC image M104311715L, which
has a pixel size of about 1.4 m. The distance of
this crater from crater 'a' is about forty percent of the
a-b separation, rather than one-third; but the pattern of
small craters is similar to the planimetric map |
| Detail from
M137346262R. Resolution of the raw image is 0.48m
(horizontal) and 0.55m (vertical). The version
presented here has been rescaled vertically to 0.48m.
This image shows two small (1-2m) craters just inside
the west rim of Ballet Crater. Both are visible in
AS17-138-21155 and 21156. |
| Detail from
AS17-138-21155 showing the two small craters just inside
the west rim of Ballet Crater. |
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