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                              2022 December 17
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                         Apollo 17 VIP Site Anaglyph
      Image Credit: [3]Gene Cernan, [4]Apollo 17, [5]NASA; Anaglyph by
                           [6]Erik van Meijgaarden

   Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo
   scene from [7]Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph
   features a detailed 3D view of Apollo 17's [8]Lunar Rover in the
   foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills.
   Because the world was going to be able [9]to watch the [10]Lunar
   Module's ascent stage liftoff via the rover's TV camera, this
   [11]parking place was also known as the VIP Site. [12]Fifty years ago,
   in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison
   Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, while colleague Ronald Evans
   [13]orbited overhead. The crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and
   soil samples, more than from any of the other lunar landing sites.
   Cernan and Schmitt [14]are still the last [15]to walk ([16]or drive)
   [17]on the Moon.

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