Rhysling is a feature on Earth's
Moon, a crater in the
Hadley–Apennine region. Astronauts
David Scott and
James Irwin stopped near the west rim of it in 1971, on the
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 (July 26August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to Moon landing, land on the Moon. It was the first List of Apollo missions#Alphabetical mission types, J mission, with a ...
mission, during
EVA 1. Geology Station 3 was about 125 meters west of Rhysling, and a single piece of vesicular
basalt was collected there
sample 15016. The rock is sometimes called the ''
seatbelt basalt
Lunar Sample 15016, better known as the "Seatbelt Basalt", is a Moon rock, lunar sample discovered and collected on the Apollo 15 mission in 1971 in the Hadley-Apennine region of the Moon. The rock is a vesicular olivine basalt.
It is so named ...
''.
Rhysling is located less than 1 km east of Hadley Rille, less than 1 km northwest of
Earthlight
''Earthlight'' is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1955. It is an expansion to novel length of a novella of the same name that he had published four years earlier.
Overview
''Earthlight'' is a scie ...
crater, and about 2 km south of the Apollo 15 landing site itself, at
Last crater.
The crater was named by the astronauts, and the name was formally adopted by the
IAU
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in 1973.
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External links
Apollo 15 Traverses
Lunar Photomap 41B4S4(25)
References
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Impact craters on the Moon