Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares
landed
on the Moon
on February 5, 1971.
Toward the end of the stay astronaut
Ed
Mitchell
snapped
a series
of photos
of the lunar surface while looking out a window,
assembled
into this detailed mosaic by
Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
editor Eric Jones.
The view looks across the
Fra Mauro
highlands
to the northwest
of the landing site after the Apollo 14 astronauts had completed
their second and final
walk on the
Moon.
Prominent in the foreground is their Modular Equipment Transporter,
a two-wheeled, rickshaw-like device used to carry tools and samples.
Near the horizon at top center is a 1.5 meter wide boulder dubbed
Turtle rock.
In the shallow crater below Turtle rock
is the long white handle of a sampling instrument,
thrown there javelin-style by Mitchell.
Mitchell's fellow moonwalker and first American in space,
Alan Shepard, also used a makeshift six iron
to hit
two
golf balls.
One of Shepard's golf balls is just visible as a white spot
below
Mitchell's javelin.