My last map has a box labelled 'Fig. 175B'. Just a reminder that these are placeholders for figure numbers in a future project which I will be talking about later in the year.

Let's zoom in on that boxed area. This map shows the landing ellipse shown in a 2009 publication. A smaller box zooms in towards the landing site. A wrinkle ridge is just visible within it.

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Finally that zoom-in sequence leads to this. Box A in the previous post refers to A here, which takes us to B with the lander itself. Box C in the previous post refers to box C here and the link to D, the rover's final parking place. Tracks from Lunokhod's wheels are visible around Luna 17 and the parked rover. We will be following the traverse in a set of maps like the Apollo EVA maps. But first, let's consider how we know where Luna 17 landed. #maps #moon#Luna17#Lunokhod1

Zooming in again we see the ridge very clearly. I will have something to say about it soon. Among the scattered craters are two more boxes. The lower one shows the position of the lander. The upper one shows the final resting place of the rover. I make sequences of maps like these so people can easily find a small spacecraft in a large image (LRO NAC images are 50,000 pixels long and 5000 pixels wide, that's a lot of pixels to search through).
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