Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972

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Tape 59/19
mare. Still looking at Oceanus Procellarum.
And
now, out window 3, up to the northwest, Grimaldi
is starting to show up -
a very obvious dark area
within the highlands of that part of the Moon ­
and one of the darkest mare regions that we have
seen on the -
on the Moon.
It I s comparable, at
least in the photographs, to that of Tsiolkovsky.
Roger.
Normally, of course, we think of the dark mare as
being the younger basalt flows that -
on the Moon,
but in our case, of course, young means something
on the order of 3 billion years or older.
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