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... pilot, described Apollo 17 landing site in moon's Taurus-Littrow area on rim of Serenitatis Basin: "It's in that general geographic ring that resembles the Apennine front near where ... evidence that we are close to mare. The nearest obvious mare surface is several hundred kilometers 100 km equals 62 mi to the ... northwest-in the Mare Serenitatis . We are landing on a plain that seems to overlie a slightly elevated flat surface that predates the mare. And it seems when you look ...

... with surrounding terrain. Far side appeared mountainous. Copernicus Crater was deficiency region; Sinus Aestuum, Mare Serenitatis, and Mare Crisium were high regions; and Littrow landing site was low. Harold Masursky of U.S ... expected except that there were a couple of surprises." Experimenters had expected that "over the Mare, the smooth areas, ... we'd have a reasonably smooth, well-behaved echo, and over the ...

... . Region, named for Taurus Mountains and Littrow Crater and located just beyond southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis (one of largest mascons), had been selected to help fill in major gaps in development ... as viewed from earth would be one prime sampling objective. It contained very dark non-mare material believed to have eroded off mountains and volcanic-looking cinder cones which suggested material ...

... ). In maneuvering " Challenger " to a landing at Taurus-Littrow, located on the southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis, Cernan and Schmitt activated a base of operations from which they completed three highly successful ...

... ) mascon-mass concentration of gravitational pull-on moon's far side and of fact that Mare Marginis at eastern edge was flooded fraction of mascon basin was reported in Science by ... .8 times heavier than mascons associated with Mares Imbrium and Serenitatis on moon's near side. If mare material was confirmed in basin, discoverers proposed calling it Mare Occulum (Hidden Sea). Dr. Campbell said ...

... than undisturbed surface. Chemical composition of surface material was similar to basaltic rocks on earth; mare material contained more iron elements than highland material; and highland material had higher albedo than ... pulverized" by meteoroid impacts; some undefined process lightened optical surface and darkened buried material; and mare areas were "surprisingly similar and offer numerous safe-landing zones for future lunar missions." ''(A ...

... from 10 areas in Hadley region during July 26- Aug. 7, 1971, mission. Samples were mare basalts and breccias with variety of premare igneous rocks. "The bulk chemical compositions and textures ... of anorthositic fragments along with clasts of basaltic rocks much richer in plagioclase than the mare basalts. These two rock types also occur as common components in soil samples from this site. The rocks and soils from both the front and mare region exhibit a variety of shock characteristics that can best be ascribed to ray material ...

... density of underlying material and permitted development of models to help interpret mascons. Analysis of mare basalts from the Apollo 11 , 12, 15, and 17 missions and from the U.S.S.R.'s Luna 16 indicated that the filling of the mare basins took place mostly between 3.2 billion and 3.8 billion yrs ago. Formation ... as old as 15 billion to 4.6 billion yrs existed on the moon. Dark mare regions were thought to be underlain by lava, but craters had been mostly caused by ...

... Hadley Mountain, which was pretty high. I forget exactly how high it was above the mare, but about 11,000 feet, and then plopped down right on the other side of ... said, about six kilometers from this portion of the mountain that came down to the mare surface. We couldn’t get up on top of Mount Hadley, that was way too ... up 100 meters or 100 some odd—100 meters or a little more above the mare plain. The rover climbed right up there pretty well. It got in some pretty steep ...

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