3D print the Apollo 17 landing site at Taurus-Littrow
The valley where the last Apollo crew landed, on one print: the North and South Massifs, the Sculptured Hills and the valley floor between them, from elevation data measured by lunar orbiters.
Where it is 20.19°N 30.77°E The Moon · near side
- Landing
- December 11, 1972
- Crew
- Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans
- Massifs
- About 2 km (6,600 ft) above the valley floor
- Name
- After the Taurus mountains and Littrow crater
40 by 39 km of the Moon, 160 mm across
About Taurus-Littrow valley
Apollo 17 landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley on December 11, 1972. Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt explored the valley floor while Ronald Evans orbited overhead. Schmitt, a geologist, was the first scientist to walk on the Moon, and Cernan was the last person to leave footprints there.
The valley cuts into the mountains around the Serenitatis basin, and the massifs on either side rise about 2 km (6,600 ft) above its floor. A landslide off the South Massif spread a pale apron across the floor, and at Shorty crater Schmitt found orange soil that turned out to be volcanic glass.
Sources: IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Taurus-Littrow Valley, NASA NSSDC: Apollo 17, NASA: Apollo 17, LROC: South Massif, LROC: Shorty crater, Lucchitta, NASA Technical Reports Server
