<p>Apollo 15 Hasselblad image from film magazine 91/M - LM Extraction, Earth, Lunar Orbit<br>This photo was used in figure 3-3 of the <i>Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report</i> (NASA SP-289, 1972), which has the following caption:<br></p>
The SIVB stage is visible to the right of the LM thrusters. The compartment formerly occupied by the LM is to the right; the rocket skirt is to the left. After the docking maneuver and the extraction of the LM, the SIVB stage was targeted to impact the Moon. The impact on the lunar surface provided an energy source of known magnitude that was used to calibrate the seismometers emplaced by the Apollo 12 and 14 crews.
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