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Photograph taken on Apollo 14 showing a cluster of boulders near the rim of Cone crater. Note the layering on some of the larger boulders. Analysis of Apollo 14 samples suggests that there are five major geologic constituents present in the immediate landing area: regolith breccias, fragmental breccias, igneous lithologies, granulitic lithologies, and impact-melt lithologies.
Although Littrow went unvisited, a nearby area, Taurus-Littrow, was the landing site for Apollo 17. [34] Apollo 14's landing site was located slightly closer to Cone crater than the point designated for Apollo 13. [35] The change in landing site from Littrow to Fra Mauro affected the geological training for Apollo 14.
Cone crater is a small crater in the Fra Mauro highlands, north of Fra Mauro crater, on the Moon.The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973. [1]The Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed the Lunar Module (LM) Antares southwest of Cone crater on February 5, 1971.
On Jan. 31, 1971, NASA sent the Apollo 14 mission skyward. The eighth crewed mission in the Apollo program (and third one to reach the surface of the Moon) lifted off on a Sunday afternoon with ...
The area north of Fra Mauro crater was the intended landing site of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, which was aborted after an oxygen tank aboard the spacecraft exploded. The crew later returned safely to Earth. The next mission, Apollo 14, landed at Fra Mauro.
It is estimated that the far-side crust is on average thicker than the near side by about 15 km. [35] Seismology has constrained the thickness of the crust only near the Apollo 12 and Apollo 14 landing sites. Although the initial Apollo-era analyses suggested a crustal thickness of about 60 km at this site, recent reanalyses of this data ...
Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...
Image taken by astronaut Al Shepard of the boulder named 'Filleted Rock' displaying a fine-grained deposit at its base, i.e., fillet. Image taken at Station C2 of the Apollo 14 landing site. Rock width is about 1.5 m. The fillet is characterized by an onlap contact with the adjacent rock and by a shallow or concave profile. Associated ...