3D print the Apollo 12 landing site in the Ocean of Storms
The plain where Apollo 12 landed beside an earlier robot lander, on one print: the Ocean of Storms and its craters, from elevation data measured by lunar orbiters.
Where it is 3.01°S 23.42°W The Moon · near side
- Landing
- November 19, 1969
- Crew
- Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Richard Gordon
- Moonwalks
- Two, 7 hours 45 minutes in all
- Samples
- 34 kg (76 lb)
61 by 61 km of the Moon, 160 mm across
About Apollo 12 landing site
Apollo 12 landed in the Ocean of Storms on November 19, 1969, within about 180 m (590 ft) of Surveyor 3, a robotic lander that had touched down in April 1967. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean spent 7 hours 45 minutes outside on two moonwalks while Richard Gordon orbited overhead.
On their second moonwalk the crew removed about 10 kg (22 lb) of parts from Surveyor 3, including its TV camera, now at the National Air and Space Museum, so scientists could study how they had changed after two and a half years on the Moon. They brought home 34 kg (76 lb) of rock and soil.
Sources: NASA NSSDC: Apollo landing sites, NASA NSSDC: Apollo 12, NASA NSSDC: Apollo 12 lunar module, NASA NSSDC: Surveyor 3, IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Surveyor
