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Taurus-Littrow Route Map

July 21, 2004

Taurus-Littrow Route Map

With the use of a rover, astronauts on the last three Apollo missions could travel so far that a route map was need before the mission and afterwards to get a geographical (or selenographical for purists) understanding of their explorations. Apollo 17, humanity's last lunar visit, was the most daring - the Lunar Module Challenger came in low over the Taurus Mountains for a pin-point landing on a small flat plain surrounded by mountains, and the astronauts drove the rover a record 36 km. The two main science goals were to sample ancient rocks, hopefully older than the Imbrium impact, and the dark volcanic deposits that might be young. The long trips to North (12 km) and South (20 km) Massifs allowed sampling of rocks that proved to be greater than 4.2 billion years old, but the hoped for young volcanism - the dark mantle material including orange glass at Shorty Crater: Station 4) - was also ancient: 3.64 billion years. Apollo 17 provided evidence for explosive volcanism, but not youthful volcanism on the Moon.

— Chuck Wood

Technical Details:
A larger, more legible version of this map, and panoramas for each sample station are at Ralph's website.

Tomorrow's LPOD: Huge Fractures

Author & Editor:
Charles A. Wood

Technical Consultant:
Anthony Ayiomamitis

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+      <td><h2 align="left">Taurus-Littrow Route Map</h2></td>
+      <td><h2 align="right">July 21, 2004</h2></td>
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+	<table width="85%"  border="0" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2">
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+      <td colspan="2"><div align="center">
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+<table width="100%"  border="0" cellpadding="8">
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+      <td><div align="center" span class="main_sm">Image Credit: [mailto:ralph_a47@hotmail.com Ralph Aeschliman] </div></td>
+    </tr>
+</table>
+ </p>
+  <table class="story" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="90%" cellpadding="10" align="center"><tr><td>
+  <p class="story" align="center"><b>Taurus-Littrow Route Map</b></p>
+  <p class="story" align="left">
+With the use of a rover, astronauts on the last three Apollo missions could travel so far that a route map was need before the mission and afterwards to get a geographical (or selenographical for purists) understanding of their explorations. Apollo 17, humanity's last lunar visit, was the most daring - the Lunar Module Challenger came in low over the Taurus Mountains for a pin-point landing on a small flat plain surrounded by mountains, and the astronauts drove the rover a record 36 km. The two main science goals were to sample ancient rocks, hopefully older than the Imbrium impact, and the dark volcanic deposits that might be young. The long trips to North (12 km) and South (20 km) Massifs allowed sampling of rocks that proved to be greater than 4.2 billion years old, but the hoped for young volcanism - the dark mantle material including orange glass at Shorty Crater: Station 4) - was also ancient: 3.64 billion years. Apollo 17 provided evidence for explosive volcanism, but not youthful volcanism on the Moon.
+  <blockquote>
+    <p align="right" class="story">&#8212; [mailto:chuck@observingthesky.org Chuck Wood]</blockquote>
+  <p class"story"><b>Technical Details:</b><br>
+    A larger, more legible version of this map, and panoramas for each sample station are at [http://ralphaeschliman.com/A17LSMap.html Ralph's website]. </p>
+  <p class"story"><b>Related Links:</b> <br>
+    [http://ralphaeschliman.com/ Ralph's Planetary Cartography and Graphics]  <br>
+    [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo17/Apollo17.html Apollo 17 Mission (LPI) ]<br>
+    [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a17/a17j.html Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal] <br>
+    [http://www.lpod.org/LPOD-2004-07-10.htm Ralph's Doodles] </p>
+  <p class"story"><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> Huge Fractures</p>
+  <p><img src="MainPage/spacer.gif" width="640" height="1"></p></td>
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+</td>
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+  <td colspan="2" rowspan="1">
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+  <table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4">
+    <tr>
+      <td><hr width="640"></td>
+      </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td><p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Author & Editor:</b><br>
+          [mailto:chuck@observingthesky.org Charles A. Wood]</p>
+        <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Technical Consultant:</b><br>
+            [mailto:anthony@perseus.gr Anthony Ayiomamitis]</p>
+        <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>[mailto:webmaster@entropysponge.com Contact Webmaster]</b></p>
+        <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>A service of:</b><br>
+            <a class="one" href="http://www.observingthesky.org/">ObservingTheSky.Org</a></p>
+        <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Visit these other PODs:</b> <br>
+          <a class="one" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html">Astronomy</a> | <a class="one" href="http://www.msss.com/">Mars</a> | <a class="one" href="http://epod.usra.edu/">Earth</a></p></td>
+      </tr>
+  </table>
+  <!-- end cal -->
+  <div align="center"></div></td>
+  </table>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>

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