Apollo Sites visible at First Quarter and Apollo 17

"Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo missions to fly. Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed the 'Challenger' Lunar Module at 19:54:57 UT on December 11, 1972, on the southeastern rim of Mare Serenitatis in a dark geological deposit between massif units of the southwestern Montes Taurus. The mission was incredibly successful and achieved a number of goals including: 

• the greatest distance covered using an electricity powered two man rover on a single EVA.
• a total distance traversed on the lunar surface of 34 kilometres.
• a total lunar surface duration of 75 hours
• the largest collection of lunar rocks returned to Earth
• the deployment of a number of geological experiments

Sadly, and with falling US public interest in the Apollo Programme, Apollo 17 was the last manned spacecraft to visit the Moon. Eugene Cernan was the last man to have walked on the surface of the Moon. How fickle is the tax paying public!

The following images, are for me, some of the most fantastic photographs ever taken by our species.
All the Apollo astronauts showed amazing; leadership, fortitude and skill in their approach to achieving taxing objectives in an inhospitable environment presenting extreme danger and risk". - Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell plank Observatory.

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Commander Eugene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans

Credits: NASA and LRO