Oblique view of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendeleev_(crater)" class="extiw" title="en:Mendeleev (crater)">Mendeleev</a>, on the far side of the moon, facing west.  Object in center foreground is the gamma-ray spectrometer of the spacecraft.
NASA<br>
1972
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(<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Original text: <i><bdi lang=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" class="extiw" title="en:Apollo 16">Apollo 16</a> Mapping camera image, unedited.<br>The original image is in the public domain because it is a work of the U.S. Government (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="en:NASA">NASA</a>).<br><b>Immediate source</b>: Lunar and Planetary Institute, Apollo Image Atlas<br>Mapping Camera Image Catalog, Apollo 16, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS16-M-0472">AS16-M-0472</a></bdi></i></span>)