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Apollo 16 landing site

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The only Apollo landing in the central highlands, chosen to sample terrain thought to be volcanic and found not to be. Located in Descartes highlands. Position as published; measured in the lunar frame, not the terrestrial one.

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    1. Story
    2. The only Apollo landing in the central highlands, chosen to sample terrain thought to be volcanic and found not to be. Located in Descartes highlands. Position as published; measured in the lunar frame, not the terrestrial one.
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    4. Apollo 16 landing site
    5. Connections
    6. Apollo 16
    7. Evidence
    8. Positions of Apollo descent stages and other landed hardware, derived from orbital imagery in the IAU Mean Earth/Polar Axis lunar frame. Cited here for the non-Apollo-11 sites and for LRO’s own operating record.
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