DescriptionHelicon crater Le Verrier crater AS15-M-1554.jpg
English: Highly oblique view of Helicon (left) and Le Verrier (right), Mare Imbrium, on the moon. The mountain on the horizon at left is Promontorium Laplace, about 180 km beyond Helicon. Note that Helicon's ejecta is buried by the mare lava, but Le Verrier's is not. Camera Altitude is 101 km, Sun Elevation is 8° (from right).
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created 2015, original 1971
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Apollo 15 Mapping camera image rotated and cropped in GIMP. The original image is in the public domain because it is a work of the U.S. Government (NASA).
Immediate source: Lunar and Planetary Institute, Apollo Image Atlas Mapping Camera Image Catalog, Apollo 15, AS15-M-1554
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{{Information |Description = Highly oblique view of [[Helicon (crater)]] (left) and [[Le Verrier (crater)]] (right), [[Mare Imbrium]], on the moon. The mountain on the horizon at left is Promontorium Laplace, about 180 km beyond Helicon. Note that He...
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This is a virtual print of Apollo Photograph AS15-M-1554 generated by the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University. Usage of this image is governed by the Acceptable Use Policy, which can be accessed at http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/ABOUT_SCANS/index.html