Steno-Apollo
Sign in to saveSteno-Apollo is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. The astronauts referred to it simply as Steno during the mission. The north rim of Steno is Geology Station 1 of the mission.
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- Instance of
- impact crater
- Named after
- Nicolas Steno
- Diameter
- 0.52
- Image
- Steno-Apollo crater location AS17-151-23251.jpg
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Steno-Apollo is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. The astronauts referred to it simply as Steno during the mission. The north rim of Steno is Geology Station 1 of the mission.
To the south of Steno is Emory, to the northwest are Trident and Powell, and to the northeast is Sherlock.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steno-Apollo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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