Cochise is a feature on Earth's
Moon
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, a crater in
Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts
Eugene Cernan and
Harrison Schmitt landed southwest of it in 1972, on the
Apollo 17
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mission. They drove along its rim in the
rover
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during
EVA
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3, but did not stop.
To the southwest are
Shakespeare
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and
Van Serg, and to the northeast is
Bowen Bowen may refer to:
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and Geology Station 8 at the base of the Sculptured Hills.
The crater was named by the astronauts after
Cochise, Chief of the
Chiricahua
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Apache
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.
The Valley of Taurus-Littrow
Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal, Corrected Transcript and Commentary Copyright 1995 by Eric M. Jones
Image:Cochise crater AS17-141-21596-21598.jpg, Cochise in foreground as viewed from Geology Station 6, some distance up the North Massif
Image:Cochise crater AS17-P-2750 ASU.jpg, Apollo 17 panoramic camera image from low lunar orbit
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As used in the space program, this refers not to the orbit of the Moon about the Earth, but to orbits by spacecraft around the Moon. The ...
References
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External links
43D1S2(25) Apollo 17 Traverses
at Lunar and Planetary Institute
Geological Investigation of the Taurus-Littrow Valley: Apollo 17 Landing Site
Impact craters on the Moon
Apollo 17