In December 1972, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt—the last two men to walk on the Moon in NASA’s historic Apollo program—took this photograph using a handheld Hasselblad camera. The image shows Earth looming like an alien form above a massive lunar boulder in the foreground. The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Moon’s Taurus-Littrow region on the southeast border of the Sea of Serenity—the landing site of Apollo 17. Scientists believe the Taurus-Littrow valley was formed roughly 3.9 billion years ago, when an enormous asteroid impacted the Moon and violently excavated a basin 435 miles (700 kilometers) in diameter. As blocks of rock were ejected from the surface of the moon, rings of mountains formed, and in some areas, radial valleys were strewn throughout the mountains. The valley was an ideal place for a Moon landing, as it is conveniently located for soil-collecting and examining crustal material. - Nirmala Nataraj
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the moon would be a lot cooler if there was some trees or a hotel there just saying