Apollo 16 Hasselblad image from film magazine 120/V - Lunar orbit.<br>This photo is used in Figure 4-45 of the <i>Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report</i> (NASA SP-315), which has the following caption:<br>Gassendi Crater. Low Sun illumination enhances the contrast between the rough and cracked surface on the floor of Gassendi and the smoother surface of the Sea of Moisture beyond the low crater rim at the top of the frame. The high northern rim of Gassendi is at the lower right corner of this oblique view southward across the 110-km-diameter crater. Gassendi was one of three candidate sites for the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission; sampling and study of the central peak complex would have been the scientific objective of the proposed mission. The shadow at the lower left corner of the frame conceals the floor of the Crater Gassendi A.
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