Apollo 16 Lands in the Lunar Highlands

Name: Apollo 16 Lands in the Lunar Highlands
Uploaded: 2022-04-15T07:06:40-07:00
Duration: 1 min 17 s
Description: Thanks to data provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, we are able to visualize the Apollo 16 landing site in the Descartes highlands on the ne...

June 16, 2025

Credit	NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Language	english

Explore the Apollo 16 landing site in this visualization.

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Apollo 16 Lands in the Lunar Highlands