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Looking Forward to the Moon

Charle davers

30 Jul, 2025

https://ift.tt/2zZGHfq NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this image of the Hadley–Apennine region of the moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very near the edge of the shadow of one of the lunar mountains in the area).

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