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Apollo 17
View of Earth above the antenna of the lunar roving vehicle during EVA

The Earth appears in the far distant background above the hi-gain antenna of the lunar roving vehicle in this photograph taken by Scientist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA-3) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, stands beside the LRV. Schmitt is the mission's lunar module pilot.



Catalog Date: 13 December 1972
Film Type: 70mm
NASA image: AS17-134-20473


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