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    Astronaut Harrison Schmitt and Lunar Module Dwarfed by Moon Rock from the Apollo 17 mission


    Astronaut Harrison Schmitt and Lunar Module Dwarfed by Moon Rock from the Apollo 17 mission

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    1. Suspicious-Slip248 on

      Captured during the final lunar expedition, the Apollo 17 mission (1972), this image shows astronaut-geologist Harrison H. Schmitt examining a massive boulder at Station 6 near the North Massif in the Taurus–Littrow Valley. The mission marked the last time humans walked on the Moon

      Schmitt was unique. He wasn’t a fighter pilot, he was a geologist, Schmitt played a key role in studying lunar formations and collecting samples that reshaped our understanding of the Moon’s volcanic history.(Courtesy to r/ArchiveOfHumanity )

    2. SoMuchEdgeImOnACliff on

      Somehow seeing a rock that size on the moon next to someone with that pitch dark horizon against a grey landscape gives a sense of cosmic horror.

    3. WoodI-or-WoodntI on

      Not to be pedantic, but, that is the Lunar Rover and not the LEM.

      The Apollo missions to the moon are still amazing considering the technology of the day.

    4. jmnemonik on

      Any place to get this pic in better quality? This image has perfect space on my wall 🙂 greatest humanity achievement

    5. Hellrazor_muc on

      It’s a shame only a single scientist was on the moon back then. I hope next time there will be more 

    8. FighterJock412 on

      I wish I could be as happy about anything as Jack Schmitt was about finding orange soil.

    12. Nulovka on

      Is that Tracy rock? He thought about using his finger to trace his daughter’s name in the dust on in the rock’s sloping face, but decided against it because he didn’t want to be the first person to put graffiti on the moon.

    14. bpg2001bpg on

      How much do you think that rock weighs? Could the astronaut pick it up? Push it around?

    19. Vespene on

      This rock has most probably been there for 4.5 billion years.

      Or it’s an asteroid.

    20. Tricky-Glassy on

      this makes me feel so small in the weirdest way 😭 like i remember staring at the sky as a kid thinking space was kinda cozy?? now i see stuff like this and i’m like yeah… absolutely not i need walls and a ceiling lol

    22. pornborn on

      I kinda wanna see him pick that rock up because of the weak Lunar gravity (I know it would still be way too heavy). Lol.

      Reminds me of a science joke:

      I have a table that weighs 100 lbs on Earth. How much would the Earth weigh on the table?

      Answer: >!100 lbs. Proof: turn the table upside-down.!<

    23. theanedditor on

      If yiou look at the picutre for long enough you can see the rock as being tiny and it’s a forced perspective. That really messes with my noodle. It would be quite funny if they set the camera on the ground, had him bounce bounce bounce a few hundred meters away and then snapped the pic.

      Serioulsy though, the lack of reference points always gets me – I can’t tell how far away or tall those features are in the background, are they close and small, far and big….

    24. soupdawg on

      Interesting. I know we have plenty of rocks like this on Earth, but I’ve never seen one on the moon before.