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Soaring Over Lunar Mt. Hadley

hills and valleys on the lunar surface
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
Published: September 28, 2017

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this oblique view of the area surrounding Hadley Base, the landing site of Apollo 15, including Hadley Rille. For scale, the V-shaped trough of Hadley Rille is roughly 0.6 miles (1 km) wide.

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