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Identification of Ballet Crater
EVA-2 Station 3

Eric M. Jones.
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Last revised 24 May 2013.

 

Detail
          from Jack's Station 3 Pan


Detail from Jack Schmitt's Station 3 pan, centered on Ballet Crater.  A lobe of the Lincoln-Lee Scarp is in the middle distance.  In the distance, Hanover Crater is just east of the scarp trace on the lower slopes of the North Massif.  Assembly by Eric Jones. (Click on the image for a larger version.) See, also, Alan Bean's painting of this scene.



Apollo 17 Professioal Paper Figure 7a


Figure 7a from the USGS Apollo 17 Professional Paper showing the appoximate locations of Stations 3 and 4 and of three explosive charges (LRV-3, 5, and 6)  deployed during the traverse.  The plotted location of Station 3 is north and slightly east of a 25-m crater (labeled 'a') at a distance of about one-third the distance of the 25-m crater from a similar-sized crater (labeled 'b') at the center of Lara.


Apollo 17 Station 3 Planimetric map,
        Preliminary Science Report

Station 3 map from the Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report. Ballet Crater is at the upper left.  The pattern of  smaller, nearby craters mapped on the basis of Hasselblad images taken by the crew help make an identification in LROC images.



Detail from LROC image M104311715L


Tentative indentification of Ballet Crater in LROC image M104311715L, which has a pixel size of about 1.4 m.  The distance of this crater from crater 'a' is about forty percent of the a-b separation, rather than one-third; but the pattern of small craters is similar to the planimetric map



LROC M137346262R (0.5m resolution)
        detail

Detail from M137346262R.  Resolution of the raw image is 0.48m (horizontal) and 0.55m (vertical).  The version presented here has been rescaled vertically to 0.48m. This image shows two small (1-2m) craters just inside the west rim of Ballet Crater.  Both are visible in AS17-138-21155 and 21156.



detsil from As17-138-21155 showing west rim craters

Detail from AS17-138-21155 showing the two small craters just inside the west rim of Ballet Crater.

 

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