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Apollo 14 Hike To Cone Crater

Image Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
Published: September 7, 2023

This video describes the hike toward Cone crater by Apollo 14 astronauts Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell, using a visualization created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.

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