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English: This photo is used in Figure 28-5 of the Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report (NASA SP-315), which has the following caption:
Apollo 16 metric camera frame 458 forward oblique view of Mandel'shtam Crater (lower left) and the 70-km-diameter Papaleski Crater (upper right). The left side of the photograph portrays typical far-side rolling topography. Note the difference in brightness between the left and right parts of the area marked by an ellipse. (Visually, there was also a color difference.) The arrow points to a scarp shown in detail in figure 28-6. The extended boom of the gamma ray spectrometer is in right center.

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Image Name: AS16-M-0458
Mission: Apollo 16
Revolution (Orbit): 25
Camera: Mapping/Metric
Exposure: 00:00:00
Camera Tilt: 25
Scan Pixel Scale: 10.088
Start Time: (DOY:112) 1972-04-21T19:16:51
Spacecraft Altitude: 114.25 km
Center Coordinates (lat, lon): 8.6°,162.94°
Corner Coordinates: 8.15°,161.99°; 8.72°,166.62°
Sun Elevation: 8.0°
Features: MANDEL'SHTAM, PAPALEKSI
Film Type: 3400
Color: black&white
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Source Apollo Browse Gallery, Apollo 16 Mapping Camera frame AS16-M-0458
Author NASA
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