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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2024 February 3   
      
                          Apollo 14: A View from Antares   
       Image Credit: Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, NASA; Mosaic - Eric M. Jones   
      
      Explanation: Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon on   
      February 5, 1971. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchell   
      snapped a series of photos of the lunar surface while looking out a   
      window, assembled into this detailed mosaic by Apollo Lunar Surface   
      Journal editor Eric Jones. The view looks across the Fra Mauro   
      highlands to the northwest of the landing site after the Apollo 14   
      astronauts had completed their second and final walk on the Moon.   
      Prominent in the foreground is their Modular Equipment Transporter, a   
      two-wheeled, rickshaw-like device used to carry tools and samples. Near   
      the horizon at top center is a 1.5 meter wide boulder dubbed Turtle   
      rock. In the shallow crater below Turtle rock is the long white handle   
      of a sampling instrument, thrown there javelin-style by Mitchell.   
      Mitchell's fellow moonwalker and first American in space, Alan Shepard,   
      also used a makeshift six iron to hit two golf balls. One of Shepard's   
      golf balls is just visible as a white spot below Mitchell's javelin.   
      
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