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Apollo landing site · 5 Feb 1971

Apollo 14

Landed5 Feb 1971
CrewShepard, Mitchell
Lat / lon-3.65°, -17.47°

Fra Mauro highlands. Shepard hit two golf balls.

Lunar laser ranging to Apollo retroreflectors tests gravity to high precision, the same physics that predicts where a Planet Nine would have to be. Marker position is to scale on the Moon; the Moon itself is enlarged.

Sources

  1. NASA: Apollo landing sites (LRO)
  2. LPI: Apollo landing site coordinates
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