April 12, 2004
A birthday is what happens when cosmic time briefly puts down the scale of eons and pays attention to a single human year.
Apollo 17 Panorama: Astronaut Running
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APOD published April 12, 2004. Credit: M. Constantine (moonpans.com). A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
What would it be like to explore the surface of another world? In 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission, astronaut Harrison Schmitt found out first hand. In this case, the world was Earth's own Moon. In this recently compiled panorama of lunar photographs originally taken by astronaut Eugene Cernan, the magnificent desolation of the barren Moon is apparent. Visible above and by scrolling right are lunar rocks in the foreground, lunar mountains in the background, some small craters, a lunar rover, and astronaut Schmidt on his way back to the rover. A few days after this image was taken, humanity left the Moon and has yet to return.
Image credit: M. Constantine (moonpans.com)