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Elbow is a feature on Earth's 
Elbow is located on the edge of Hadley Rille, about 1 km northeast of the larger St. George crater, and about 3.2 km southwest of the Apollo 15 landing site itself.
The ''Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report''Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report
1972, NASA SP-289, Scientific and Technical Information Office, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, Washington, D.C. describes Elbow as follows: The crater was named by the astronauts after its location at a bend, or elbow, in Hadley Rille, and the name was formally adopted by the
Apollo 15 Traverses
Lunar Photomap 41B4S4(25)
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, a crater in the Hadley–Apennine
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region. Astronauts David Scott
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and James Irwin
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visited the east rim of it in 1971, on the Apollo 15
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1. The east rim of Elbow was designated Geology Station 1 of the mission. Geology Station 2 was to the southwest of the crater, up the slope of Mons Hadley Delta.
Elbow is located on the edge of Hadley Rille, about 1 km northeast of the larger St. George crater, and about 3.2 km southwest of the Apollo 15 landing site itself.
The ''Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report''Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report1972, NASA SP-289, Scientific and Technical Information Office, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, Washington, D.C. describes Elbow as follows: The crater was named by the astronauts after its location at a bend, or elbow, in Hadley Rille, and the name was formally adopted by the
IAU
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in 1973.
Samples
The following samples were collected from Elbow Crater (Station 1), as listed in Table 5-II of the ''Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report''. Sample type, lithology, and description are from Table 5-IV of the same volume.External links
Apollo 15 Traverses
Lunar Photomap 41B4S4(25)
References
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