Moon landing rill visit.

[Dynamo Duck]

I was always fascinated my anything space related by anything space related right from watching the first rockets taking off from Cape Kennedy even before I started school. In fact I was still a pre teen when the last man walked on the moon in 1972. One of the things I remember from watching the astronauts walking on the moon and driving around in the moon buggy was one team that did a trip to a rill. Does anyone know which moon landing this was, and are there any photo's from the LRO available for us to see exactly where this mission extended to?

Cheers. Ewan.

[jules]

You are probably thinking of Apollo 15 and Hadley Rille. There's an LRO article here. And there are some amazing views on the following NACs (Narrow Angle Camera images.)

M104504818RC
M106862700LC

And here's an ACT_REACT Quick view link. Click on Overlays on the left and choose "Moon features" and "LROC featured images" to see the landing site in relation to the rille.

And here's the landing site.

Be warned - you could spend hours just browsing around there!

[jules]

And as my good friend placidstorm pointed out you might just need to zoom out or move north east on that ACT link as it centres on a portion of the rille to the south west of the landing site.

Thanks placid!!

[placidstorm]

 I boo booed first the same way   they are rille similar spots 

[placidstorm]

Here is another link for you Dynamo

http://next.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/images15.html

These are the photos from the boots on the ground . And there be a lot of them , so you might want to leave a trail of bread crumbs to find your way back  .

[jules]

You do realise he'll be gone for weeks now.....

[Dynamo Duck]

Thanks for all the help folks. Some of the links were very good, but what I'd like to see are the basic view of the tracks to and from the rille (sorry if I spelled it wrong  ) from the LRO, even if it means just sticking a couple of jpg's together.

Cheers. Ewan.

[jules]

This shows where the tracks should be. Here's the corresponding NAC but I can't see the tracks: M106855508LC. I'm not sure that the NAC taken at 25m above the surface (which the pictures in the article are taken from) is available to the public yet - but I'll have a dig around as that is more likely to show the finer tracks.

[jules]

This is the high res NAC ref - but it's not available to view.
M175252641L/R

EDIT - it is now!!!

[Dynamo Duck]

This is the high res NAC ref - but it's not available to view.
M175252641L/R

EDIT - it is now!!!

How can I use that code to find the pic?

Cheers. Ewan.

[Geoff]

To see the images go to the LROC Image Browser

Click on the "Image Search" link, top right.

In the "LROC Image Search" window, enter M175252641 in the "Product ID" field and click on the "Search" button (bottom left)

It should find two images which will show up towards the bottom as links. Click on one of these to go to the actual image.