This
image of the Apollo 12 lunar module was taken from the command module
by astronaut Richard Gordon shortly after separation. The lunar
module is 110 km above the surface highlands. The large crater in
the left foreground is the 164 km diameter Ptolemaeus, centered
at 9.3 S, 1.9 W. Herschel crater, 40 km in diameter, is at the right,
centered at 5.7 S, 2.1 W. The image is looking to the west. Gordon
is just beginning his 38 hours of solo orbits around the Moon in
the command module while Charles Conrad and Alan Bean explore the
surface.
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