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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2022 December 17   
      
                            Apollo 17 VIP Site Anaglyph   
         Image Credit: Gene Cernan, Apollo 17, NASA; Anaglyph by Erik van   
                                    Meijgaarden   
      
      Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo   
      scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph   
      features a detailed 3D view of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover in the   
      foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills.   
      Because the world was going to be able to watch the Lunar Module's   
      ascent stage liftoff via the rover's TV camera, this parking place was   
      also known as the VIP Site. Fifty years ago, in December of 1972,   
      Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75   
      hours on the Moon, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. The   
      crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and soil samples, more than   
      from any of the other lunar landing sites. Cernan and Schmitt are still   
      the last to walk (or drive) on the Moon.   
      
                      Tomorrow's picture: the brightest stars   
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