Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

Image Credit:

NASA,
Apollo
12,
Alan Bean –

Stereo Image Copyright:
Kevin Frank

Explanation:

Put on your
red/blue glasses
and gaze across the western
Ocean of Storms
on the surface of the Moon.

The 3D anaglyph features Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad
visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft
in November of 1969.

Surveyor 3 had landed at the site
on the inside slope of a small crater
about 2 1/2 years earlier in April of 1967.

Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater wall, Apollo 12’s
Lunar Module Intrepid
touched down less than 200 meters (650 feet) away,
easy moonwalking distance from the robotic Surveyor spacecraft.

This stereo image was carefully created from two separate pictures
(AS12-48-7133, AS12-48-7134)
captured on the
lunar surface.

They depict the scene from only
slightly different viewpoints, approximating the separation
between human eyes.