“General geography of the Descartes region. The ruggedness of the lunar highlands is shown very well in this sketch of the region by artist Jerry Elmore. Note the flat bottoms of the large craters. We are looking due east. The trajectory of the descending LM is shown as the heavy location of area of Figure 6 is indicated by the light dashed line.”
Yet another pathetic & minimal ‘effort’, incompetently copied from “ON THE MOON WITH APOLLO 16: A Guidebook to the Descartes Region”, NASA EP-95. Read/re-read the last sentence. Even the simple act of copying…correctly, apparently a bridge too far.
The caption from it, as originally written:
“FIGURE 7.-General geography of the Descartes region. The ruggedness of the lunar highlands is shown very well in this sketch of the region by artist Jerry Elmore. Note the flat bottoms of the large craters. We are looking due east. The trajectory of the descending LM is shown as the heavy dashed line. Location of area of Figure 6 is indicated by the light dashed line.”
Above at/from:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/A16OTM01-14.pdf
Credit: ALSJ website
Also:
history.nasa.gov/EP-95/p9.htm
Despite obviously being a ‘working’ copy of the image, the photograph has retained its high gloss. The taped area to the upper left, which may have been to affix something, as there’s no damage, will remain. It’s removal would also take with it the minor crater visible.
When presented ICW with Mr. Elmore’s other landing site depictions, as in the above cited publication, the image provides excellent context WRT the Descartes landing site. Oddly/Pleasantly surprisingly, to even include attribution to Mr. Elmore!