597 a
Taken by the RCA TV camera mounted on the Lunar Rover and operated by Ed Fendell at Mission Control

TV pictures of the LM Orion seen from station 10

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), one with NASA HQ caption numbered “72-H-535” on the verso, the other (unpublished) stamped “RCA Astro Electronics 72-4-576” on the verso (NASA / RCA)

597 b
Charles Duke
John Young driving the Lunar Rover back to the LM Orion

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2, 149:22:06 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS16-115-18559” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with three filing holes in top margin

597 c
Charles Duke

John Young driving the Lunar Rover back to the LM Orion

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2, 149:22:13 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS16-115-18561” in red in top margin, with three filing holes in top margin

597 d
Taken by the RCA TV camera mounted on the Lunar Rover and operated by Ed Fendell
at Mission Control

TV picture of the LM Orion at the end of the second lunar excursion

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2

Unpublished photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), stamped “RCA Astro Electronics 72-4-577” on the verso (NASA / RCA)

597 e
Taken by the RCA TV camera mounted on the Lunar Rover and operated by Ed Fendell
at Mission Control

TV picture of the Earth from the lunar surface

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2

Unpublished photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), stamped “RCA Astro Electronics 72-4-578” on the verso (NASA / RCA)
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

597 b
Hope, p. 27.

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597 a
At the end of EVA 2, Ed Fendell at Mission Control zoomed out the RCA camera mounted on the Lunar Rover parked near the lunar-science station (or ALSEP site) to survey the Descartes landing site in these B&W reproductions from a color TV transmission

From the mission transcript as Mission Control pointed the TV camera toward the LM:
149:18:57 England (Mission Control): Okay. And we’re going to have to pack up and head home.
149:19:03 Duke: Okay.
149:19:04 Young: Okay.
149:19:06 Duke: Home is about 50 meters away.

597 b
Young is seated in the Rover parked at station 10 near the lunar-science station.
Duke took the photograph from the LM Orion whose shadow is in the foreground.

149:21:28 Young: Okay. (Pause) Charlie’s already back at the LM.
149:21:39 England: Rog. We saw that before you went off (the air, meaning before Young switched off the TV on the Rover.)
149:21:40 Young: He walks a lot faster than I do. [...]
149:22:06 Young: Circuit breakers are in, Drive Power’s on Delta, and Steering’s on Delta (on the Rover).
149:22:13 England: Okay. Good show. (Pause) And we understand you reset (the navigation system) before you came.
149:22:20 Duke: [...] Yeah, I did that. [...]

597 c
NASA released a variant (AS16-115-18559) of this photograph. Young prepares to drive back to the LM the Rover parked at station 10 at the end of the EVA.

From the mission transcript as Young was driving back to the LM:

149:22:56 Young: Boy, the speed... [...]
149:23:24 Young: Charlie, let me park the LM right there.
149:23:26 Duke: Okay. The LM is already parked; but you sure can park the Rover.
149:23:30 Young: All right. Fair enough.
149:23:32 Duke: Okay. Looking back towards Stone Mountain, Tony, I don’t see the Rover tracks.
149:23:42 England: Okay. That’s fine. We’re a little bit behind the timeline there, Charlie. I think we better get closed out.

597 d
A B&W reproduction from the color TV transmission showing the LM as seen from the Rover parked at the Descartes Base.

597 e
A B&W reproduction from the color TV transmission showing a great view of the crescent
Earth seen from the Rover parked near the LM at the Descartes Base.

The astronauts didn’t photograph their Home Planet from the lunar surface during the mission.

“The Earth looks from the Moon like the Moon looks like from Earth, and vice versa. You can’t really tell the difference at that distance, even though the Earth is a lot bigger. They all look very small at 240,000 miles out. When people go to Mars, and they start looking at two very little dots out there after a couple of days, that ought to be a very interesting trip.”
John Young (Chaikin, Voices, p. 99)