Free Astronomy Magazine July-August 2019

JULY-AUGUST 2019 have required a descent twice as steep as previous missions to go down into the valley between two mountains and a rille. There was no space for a significant deviation from the trace of an ideal approach. It could not have been visited before, since it required that the site selection rules were softened. A POLLO 15 − Panoramic view of the edge of Hadley Rille. A high-resolution version of this image is available at https://www.astropublishing.com/moonscapes/A15_Hadley_Rille_panorama.pdf [NASA, Project Apollo Archive; image merging by Astro Publishing]