Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2024 November 15
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                          Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3
      Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]Apollo 12, [5]Alan Bean - Stereo Image
                          Copyright: [6]Kevin Frank

   Explanation: Put on your [7]red/blue glasses and gaze across the
   western [8]Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon. [9]The 3D
   anaglyph features Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad [10]visiting the
   Surveyor 3 spacecraft in November of 1969. [11]Surveyor 3 had landed at
   the site on the inside slope of a small crater about 2 1/2 years
   earlier in April of 1967. Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater
   wall, Apollo 12's [12]Lunar Module Intrepid touched down less than 200
   meters (650 feet) away, easy moonwalking distance from the robotic
   Surveyor spacecraft. This stereo image was carefully created from two
   separate pictures [13](AS12-48-7133, AS12-48-7134) captured on the
   [14]lunar surface. They depict the scene from only slightly different
   viewpoints, approximating the separation between human eyes.

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    Authors & editors: [26]Robert Nemiroff ([27]MTU) & [28]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([29]UMCP)
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                         [35]NASA Science Activation
                           & [36]Michigan Tech. U.

References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/KF-ApAn48-7133-4.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/apollo-12/in-depth/
   5. https://www.alanbeangallery.com/
   6. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/ApAnKF.html
   7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D#/media/File:Anaglyph_glasses.png
   8. https://www.alanbeangallery.com/tiptoeing-on-the-ocean-of-storms
   9. https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a12/A12-Anaglyphs.html
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181022.html
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990408.html
  12. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1969-099C
  13. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#7133
  14. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.html
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  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
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  26. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  27. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
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  32. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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  36. http://www.mtu.edu/