[Apollo 15] First high resolution photographs on the Moon, spanning the breathtaking Hadley Canyon from its edge at station 10. David Scott 26 July - 7 August, 1971, EVA 2. Printed 1971. Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper [NASA images AS15–89-12100, AS15–89-12106, AS15–89-12116]. Each 20.3×25.4 cm (7.9×10 in), numbered “NASA AS15–89-12100”, “NASA AS15–89-12106”, “NASA AS15–89-12116” in black in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). (3). The Hadley landing site offered to the astronauts the most beautiful scenery of all Apollo missions, especially the breathtaking Hadley Canyon meandering across the Hadley Plain up to 1.5 kilometers across in places and 400m deep. The Apollo 15 crew used for the first time a 500mm telephoto lens mounted on a lunar surface Hasselblad 500EL data camera to shoot distant features. These extraordinary series of telephotographs span the far wall of Hadley Canyon from left to right seen from its opposite edge at station 10. Photographed with the 500 mm lens, the rille appears much narrower than its actual one-km width. The area shown in the pictures is approximately 800 meters wide. The bases of Bennet Hill (left) and Hill 305 (right) are in the background beyond the mare surface.The edge of Hadley Canyon (from where Scott took this telephoto panorama) is visible in the right foreground. Scientists offer several explanations for the mysterious canyon that wanders through this waterless, windless environment. Flowing volcanic materials may have cut the gorge or gases erupting through cracks could have left the 70-mile-long fissure. By a third theory, the rille may have opened when the cooling Imbrium lava shrank. (National Geographic, February 1972, “The Mountains of the Moon”, pp. 242–243). “Oh, the beauty! The spectacular beauty! Oh, yeah, that is, to coin a phrase, mind boggling. It’s absolutely mind boggling, because you cannot believe that it is really that spectacular. I didn’t expect the beauty of it. That’s the one thing everybody talks about, and you can’t appreciate it until you get there and see it.” David Scott (Chaikin, Space, p. 66). “It [the Moon] had a majestic feeling about it. And one says this after talking about how it’s dusty, it’s gray, nothing’s growing, nothing of any real beauty. But yet, take it all together with the vastness of it, the sense of history, the boulders, and the elevations we had on our flight and certainly some of the other flights, Hadley for example, it really is majestic, in the sense of a desolate mountain desert type of a setting.” Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard. (Chaikin, Voices, p. 66).
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[Apollo 15] First high resolution photographs on the Moon, spanning the breathtaking Hadley Canyon from its edge at station 10. David Scott 26 July - 7 August, 1971, EVA 2. Printed 1971. Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper [NASA images AS15–89-12100, AS15–89-12106, AS15–89-12116]. Each 20.3×25.4 cm (7.9×10 in), numbered “NASA AS15–89-12100”, “NASA AS15–89-12106”, “NASA AS15–89-12116” in black in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). (3). The Hadley landing site offered to the astronauts the most beautiful scenery of all Apollo missions, especially the breathtaking Hadley Canyon meandering across the Hadley Plain up to 1.5 kilometers across in places and 400m deep. The Apollo 15 crew used for the first time a 500mm telephoto lens mounted on a lunar surface Hasselblad 500EL data camera to shoot distant features. These extraordinary series of telephotographs span the far wall of Hadley Canyon from left to right seen from its opposite edge at station 10. Photographed with the 500 mm lens, the rille appears much narrower than its actual one-km width. The area shown in the pictures is approximately 800 meters wide. The bases of Bennet Hill (left) and Hill 305 (right) are in the background beyond the mare surface.The edge of Hadley Canyon (from where Scott took this telephoto panorama) is visible in the right foreground. Scientists offer several explanations for the mysterious canyon that wanders through this waterless, windless environment. Flowing volcanic materials may have cut the gorge or gases erupting through cracks could have left the 70-mile-long fissure. By a third theory, the rille may have opened when the cooling Imbrium lava shrank. (National Geographic, February 1972, “The Mountains of the Moon”, pp. 242–243). “Oh, the beauty! The spectacular beauty! Oh, yeah, that is, to coin a phrase, mind boggling. It’s absolutely mind boggling, because you cannot believe that it is really that spectacular. I didn’t expect the beauty of it. That’s the one thing everybody talks about, and you can’t appreciate it until you get there and see it.” David Scott (Chaikin, Space, p. 66). “It [the Moon] had a majestic feeling about it. And one says this after talking about how it’s dusty, it’s gray, nothing’s growing, nothing of any real beauty. But yet, take it all together with the vastness of it, the sense of history, the boulders, and the elevations we had on our flight and certainly some of the other flights, Hadley for example, it really is majestic, in the sense of a desolate mountain desert type of a setting.” Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard. (Chaikin, Voices, p. 66).
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