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Thanks for viewing the MoonVR Demo.
You can unlock the full version, and all future updates,
by downloading MoonVR from the Google Play Store.
iOS Version Coming Soon.
Thanks for viewing the MoonVR Demo.
You can unlock the full version, and all future updates, by downloading MoonVR from the Google Play Store.
iOS Version Coming Soon.
Apollo 15 | Landing Site
30th July 1971
Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin landed near Hadley Rille.
After donning their suits and depressurizing the cabin, Scott and Irwin began their first full EVA, becoming the seventh and eighth humans to walk on the Moon.
Next was the deployment of the first lunar rover vehicle, which was folded up and stored in a compartment on the descent stage. However, due to the slant of the lander, deployment proved troublesome for the crew.
Apollo 16 | Landing Site
27th April, 1972
Apollo 16's landing spot in the lunar highlands was chosen to allow the astronauts to gather geologically older material than the samples obtained in three of the first four Moon landings.
On the surface, Young and Duke collected 95.8 kilograms (211 lb) of lunar samples for return to Earth, while Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly orbited in the command and service module above to perform observations.
Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke spent 71 hours—just under three days—on the lunar surface, during which they conducted three extra-vehicular activities (EVA) or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes.
Apollo 16 | Plum Crater
21st April 1972
About four hours after the beginning of EVA-1, Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke mounted the lunar rover and drove to the first geologic stop, Plum crater, a 36 m-wide (118 ft) crater on the rim of Flag crater, about 240 m (790 ft) across.
There, at a distance of 1.4 km from the Lunar Module, Duke retrieved, at the request of Mission Control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission.
Apollo 17 | Camelot Crater
12th December 1972
Located in the Taurus–Littrow valley, Camelot was named by the astronauts after the castle Camelot from the legend of King Arthur.
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Camelot during their second EVA at Geology Station 5 which was along the south rim of Camelot.
Activities at this site included a traverse gravimeter (gravitational) measurement, sample collection, and photography.
Apollo 17 | Shorty Crater
11th December 1972
Located in the Taurus–Littrow valley, Shorty is about 110 m in diameter and up to 14 m deep and is most likely a volcanic crater.
In 1972, Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt located the famous "orange soil", which turned out to be titanium-rich pyroclastic glass.
Across the mission, Cernan and Schmitt spent over 7 hours performing surface operations and exploration.
Apollo 17 | ALSEP Site
11th December 1972
The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was a collection of geophysical instruments designed to continue to monitor the environment of each Apollo landing site for a period of at least a year after the astronauts had departed.
The instruments were arrayed around a Central Station which supplied power generated by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) to run the instruments and communications so data collected by the experiments could be relayed to Earth.
Designed for a life of 1-2 years, they ended up working for up to 8 years.
To Enable VR Mode:
1. Navigate to 'MoonVR.app' in a Chrome internet browser using your phone. Moon will launch.
2. Once loaded and ready, click on the VR Headset icon, found within the Settings menu in the bottom right hand corner of the app.
3. Click on 'Use Default' when selecting the Google Cardboard version.
Images and Video Courtesy of NASA
Moon receives over-the-air (OTA) updates
and will continue to improve over time.
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Created by Tom and Space
Images and Video Courtesy of NASA
Moon receives over-the-air (OTA) updates and will continue to improve over time.
Follow me on Twitter for updates.
Created by Tom and Space
© MoonVR 2021
Apollo 17 | ALSEP Deployment Site
11th December 1972
The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was a collection of geophysical instruments designed to monitor the area around each Apollo landing site for a period of at least a year after the astronauts had departed.
The instruments were arrayed around a Central Station which supplied power generated by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) to run the instruments and communications so data collected by the experiments could be relayed to Earth.
Apollo 16 | Plum Crater
21st April 1972
During EVA-1, Commander Young and Lunar Module Pilot Duke drove to their first geologic stop, Plum crater, a 36 m-wide (118 ft) crater on the rim of Flag crater, about 240 m (790 ft) across.
It was here that Duke retrieved, at the request of Mission Control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission.
Apollo 16 | Landing Site
27th April 1972
A landing site around Descartes crater in the lunar highlands was chosen to allow the astronauts to gather geologically older material than the samples obtained in three of the first four Moon landings.
On the surface, Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke spent a total of 71 hours on the lunar surface and collected 95.8 kilograms (211 lb) of lunar samples,
Apollo 17 | Shorty Crater
11th December 1972
Located in the Taurus–Littrow valley, Shorty is about 110 m in diameter and up to 14 m deep and is most likely a volcanic crater.
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt located the famous "orange soil", which turned out to be titanium-rich pyroclastic glass.
Across the mission, Cernan and Schmitt spent over 7 hours performing surface operations and exploration.
Apollo 17 | Camelot Crater
12th December 1972
Located in the Taurus–Littrow valley, Camelot was named by the astronauts after the castle Camelot from the legend of King Arthur.
The exploration objectives at Station 5 were to observe sub-floor and dark mantle materials in the floor, rim, and walls of Camelot crater and to take samples on the crater's rim.
Apollo 15 | Landing Site
30th July 1971
Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin landed near Hadley Rille.
After donning their suits and depressurizing the cabin, Scott and Irwin began their first full EVA, becoming the seventh and eighth humans to walk on the Moon.
Next was the deployment of the first lunar rover vehicle. However, due to the slant of the lander, deployment proved troublesome for the crew.