Panoramic view of the Descartes landing site with the LM Orion, John Young, the Lunar Rover, the American flag and the Solar Wind Collector

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2, 143:13:46 GET

Unique hand mosaic of four vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS16-107-17422 to AS16-107-17436” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, overall size 24 x 68cm
24 x 68cm

NASA SP-315, p. 4.15; Constantine, p. 99.

Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, September 2018-January 2019 and February-May 2019;
exhibition catalogue, p. 99, no. 50, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

This panorama was taken facing the 4 o’clock position relative to the LM hatch (20 m from NNE of the LM).
Stone mountain, approximately 5km in the distance and 500m high, is in the left background behind the LM.
Young is beyond the Rover just south of the LM shadow, collecting samples.

“Below the ‘United States’ sign on the LM is the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) pallet, a storage area for experiments and tools. A white insulation blanket protects the area from excessive heating and cooling. To the left is a white area with gold-colored insulation draping to the surface. This is the quad III payload area, a storage area for the far-UV camera/spectrograph, the lunar portable magnetometer, and hand tools. The probes sticking up from the two landing pads are designed to detect LM touchdown on the Moon and then to crush and bend out of the way during the completion of the landing maneuver. The Lunar Rover is parked to the right of the LM. To the right of the American flag is the Solar Wind Composition experiment, which provides data on the elemental and isotopic composition of the solar wind. The dark areas on the surface are boot and vehicle tracks” (NASA SP-315, p. 4.15).

143:13:18 Duke: Okay. The old pan...
143:13:22 Duke: ...starts at f/11 at 250. Okay. Exactly 60 feet to the left, Tony!
143:13:36 England (Mission Control): Okay. (Pause)
143:13:46 Duke: The best pan. (Pause)
143:13:53 Duke: Boy, it sure looks different looking up-Sun. (Pause) You can still see those lineations in Stone Mountain, Tony. In fact, they’re maybe a little bit more pronounced (with the Sun higher than it was during EVA-1).

“This and similar views of the LM, Rover and our flag was always special. Other than the grey and white of the Moon, this was the only color. What a contrast to the stark Moon. The landing site that John selected was dead level so this made the deployment of the rover and the ALSEP a simple task.”
Charles Duke (Constantine, p. 99)