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Video Journal from this panorama

Neil's EASEP Offload Pan (frames 5930 to 5941)

110:57:05 Armstrong: And the panorama is complete. I'm at about the LM 7:30 position (SE) at about 60 feet. (Long Pause)
[Armstrong - "I say that I'm at about the LM 7:30 position, and this is the LM 7:30 position here in photograph (AS11-40-) 5931. So it appears as though the panorama to which I am addressing at 57:05 was the panorama which started with 5930 and went through maybe 5941."]

Images used for this panorama

AS11-40-5931 (OF300))
110:55:49. Rightward of 5930. In this second photo from Neil's minus-Z (east) pan, Buzz has removed the passive seismometer package from the SEQ bay. The foreground object with the handle is the Gold camera, designed to take close-up photographs of the very top layer of the lunar soil. Note, also, the split rock at the right edge, just below the center of the photograph. This boulder was probably ejected from a nearby impact, possibly West Crater, and broke into two pieces when it hit. A different boulder, just to the left of center near the tip of the LM shadow in 5883, appears to have suffered a similar fate.
AS11-40-5932 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5931, with good overlap. The split boulder is at the lower left. Note the relative darkness of the areas disturbed by the crew at the center of the photograph.
AS11-40-5933 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5932.
AS11-40-5934 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5933. View toward the northwest.
AS11-40-5935 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5934. Note the large boulders, presumably ejecta from West Crater, near the horizon on the left. The northern part of East crater can be seen in the sun glare above center.
AS11-40-5936 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5935 but without overlap because Neil has avoided the up-Sun view. The southern part of East Crater on the lefthand side of the image. Part of the rim of West Crater can be seen faintly just above center. We can locate the approximate azimuths of the north and South rims of West Crater from Figure 3-15 ( 196 k ) in the Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report and a detail from the USGS site map.
As indicated in Figure 3-15 ( 280k ), Neil took the minus-Z pan from a location about 20 meters roughly southeast of the LM. The exact location has been added to the inset at the upper right, which shows that Neil was about 55 meters due west of the south rim of East Crater. From the site map detail we see that, from the south rim of East Crater, the north rim of West Crater is about 460 meters away on an azimuth of about 92.7 degrees. With the help of a little trigonometry, this information gives an azimuth of the north rim of West Crater from Neil's location of 92.4 degrees, with the south rim azimuth being about 112.4 degrees. During the Apollo 11 EVA, the solar azimuth was 88.1 degrees, which allows us to plot the relevant azimuths on a detail from 5936. The plotted azimuth for the south rim is very close to the lefthand edge of the horizon feature that is obviously a partly shadowed portion of the rim while the plotted north rim azimuth is close to the righthand edge of what is probably a sunlit, rock-strewn portion of the rim.
AS11-40-5937 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5936.
AS11-40-5938 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5937.
AS11-40-5939 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5939. View to the south.
AS11-40-5940 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5939. View to the south. Note the rounded crater rim on the horizon just to the left of center.
AS11-40-5941 (OF300)
110:55:49. Rightward of 5940. This down-Sun is the final frame in Neil's pan.
AS11-40-5942 (OF300)