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Mission Apollo 16: John Young aiming the high-gain antenna at the Earth prior to sending TV signals. Shadow Rock at right and Smoky Mountain behind it. The stop at station 13 was to collect a series of samples from a permanently shadowed area. Shadow Rock, a 4-m-diameter boulder to the right in the photograph, was the location of the sampling.

Mission Apollo 16: John Young aiming the high-gain antenna at the Earth prior to sending TV signals. Shadow Rock at right and Smoky Mountain behind it. The stop at station 13 was to collect a series of samples from a permanently shadowed area. Shadow Rock, a 4-m-diameter boulder to the right in the photograph, was the location of the sampling. Stock Photo

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