page_title: Rhysling (crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Rhysling (crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: Rhysling crater, Hadley–Apennine region, on the moon. Sun elevation 14 deg., spacecraft altitude 101 km.
context_page_description: 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 mission, during EVA 1. Geology Station 3 was about 125 meters west of Rhysling, and a single piece of vesicular basalt was collected there. The rock is sometimes called the seatbelt basalt.
  Rhysling is located less than 1 km east of Hadley Rille, less than 1 km northwest of Earthlight 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 in 1973.
context_section_description: 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 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.
  Rhysling is located less than 1 km east of Hadley Rille, less than 1 km northwest of Earthlight 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 in 1973.
caption: Apollo 15 panoramic camera image
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