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markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:
A small treat for the weekend.
In the late evening of 24 April 1972, Apollo 16 left lunar orbit carrying John Young, Thomas Mattingley II, & Charlie Duke back to Earth.
The Apollo Metric (Mapping) Camera took a sequence of still images looking back at the Moon, initially the lunar farside & then the nearside as it rotated into view.
Here's a 10 fps movie sequence showing 90 of those images without any processing or alignment.
Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University