Lunar Landscapes Gallery

Realistic topographic models























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APOLLO 17: Taurus-Littrow Valley (march 2010) |
APOLLO 15: Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains
NEW august 2011 for the 40'th anniversary of the landing at Hadley Plains
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APOLLO 11: Sea of Tranquility (january 2011) |

A brief description of the different models

  • Taurus-Littrow Valley / Apollo 17, december 1972

  • The Taurus-Littrow model is on a scale of 1:20000, or 1 cm in the model is 200 meters on the moon. The model is 1.2 x 1.2 meters and covers a lunar area of 24 x 24 kilometers. The background picture is the Sculptured Hills and North Massif seen from behind Family Mountain. Marker pins in the landscape show where the astronauts took samples of the surface.

  • Hadley Rille /Apennine Mountains / Apollo 15, july/august 1971

  • The model of the Hadley Rille /Apennine Mountains is on a scale of 1:50000, or 1 cm in the model is 500 meters on the moon. The model is 1.2 x 1.2 meters and covers a lunar area of 60 x 60 kilometers. Marker pins in the landscape show the stations during the three EVA's over three days. The Rille is about 1500 meters wide and 300 meters deep, and it is an old, collapsed lava tube.

  • Sea of Tranquility / Apollo 11, july 1969

  • This model is with the LM Eagle, and measures 1.2 x 0.6 meters, and covers from the TV camera and to the seismomenter, about 60 x 30 meters.

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