{"id":3473,"date":"2019-11-20T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:39:11","slug":"apollo-12-50-19691120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/apollo-12-50-19691120\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 12 – 50th Anniversary. Last day on The Moon."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the last day of Apollo 12 exploring the surface of Oceanus Procellarum.<\/p>\n

There was a second EVA (Moonwalk) in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n

The nearby Surveyor 3 spacecraft was inspected and samples taken to see how it had fared in the vacuum of space for over two and a half years.<\/p>\n

The EVA finished at 07:44 UT.<\/p>\n

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image below shows landing site.
\nEvidence of the astronauts EVA can be clearly seen as well as the equipment and experiments left on the surface.<\/p>\n

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Alan Bean and Pete Conrad then prepared to lift off from The Moon.<\/p>\n

Launch of ascent stage of the lunar module Intrepid was at 14:25 UT.<\/p>\n

They docked with the command\/service module at 17:58 UT.<\/p>\n

The astronauts and their precious rock and dust samples then transferred themselves over.<\/p>\n

The lunar module ascent stage was jettisoned at 20:21 UT.<\/p>\n

It crashed onto the lunar surface at 22:17 UT.<\/p>\n

The three astronauts will stay in orbit around The Moon until tomorrow, when they will begin their journey back to Earth in the evening.<\/p>\n

This is my 3D image of the Davey crater chain, made by a string of possibly cometary particles hitting the surface one after the other, similar to Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 that hit Jupiter in July 1994.<\/p>\n

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