English: Montes Riphaeus on the Moon. The large crater at upper left is Lansberg, and the large crater near the horizon is Reinhold. The Apollo 12 landing site is in the relatively featureless area in the upper right.
Date
created 2013, original 1972
Source
Oblique Apollo 16 Mapping camera image rotated and cropped in Gimp. The edge of the original image forms the black triangle in lower left. The original image is in the public domain because is a work of the U.S. Government (NASA).
Immediate source: Lunar and Planetary Institute, Apollo Image Atlas Mapping Camera Image Catalog, Apollo 16, AS16-M-2517
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2]
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This is a virtual print of Apollo Photograph AS16-M-2517 generated by the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University. Usage of this image is governed by the Acceptable Use Policy, which can be accessed at http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/ABOUT_SCANS/index.html