Apollo 17 Lunar Panorama.
This photo-mosaic lunar panorama from Apollo 17 was created from at least nine original slit-scan images taken during that now famous December 1972 lunar mission, which was the last manned landing on the surface of the moon. The slit-scan cameras used on the Apollo 17 mission to take these images was designed by Walter Levinson of the Itek Corporation. The slit-scam technique is used in static photography to create intentional distortions or deformities.

This panorama image depicts the lunar horizon at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Captured in the image are the Apollo 17 lunar module, LM-12 Challenger, the Earth uplink transceiver deployed for communications, the shadow of the astronaut taking the photo, a part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package or ALSEP and one of the Apollo 17 astronauts in the distance. The last United States flag to be planted upon the lunar surface was on the Apollo 17 mission.

It is unknown who created this image but it was formerly part of the Jack Naylor Collection; the finest collection ever assembled of photographic equipment, prints and memorabilia.

Provenance: Acquired from the Jack Naylor Collection via auction in 2007, from Guernsey's Auctions, New York, New York.

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Sources:


Apollo 17, The Apollo Program, NASA, 18 May 2012, from: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo17.html

Apollo 17 Mission, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 18 May 2012, from: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_17/photography/

Slit-scan Photography, Wikipedia, 18 May 2012, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit-scan_photography

Davidhazy, Andrew, Slit-Scan Photography, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 18 May 2012, from: http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-slit-scan.html

Jack Naylor, Wikipedia, 18 May 2012, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Naylor

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