NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 14 December 2022: Rover repaired by 'TAPE' on the Moon
The Moon has fascinated scientists, astronomers as well as science fiction authors and readers for decades due to its mysterious craters, lowlands and an iron-rich core. Authors have even written books such as From the Earth to the Moon fantasizing about life on the Moon. Movies like Apollo 13, Ad Astra and Moon have documented man's attempts to go to the Moon and even establish a lunar base. However, not all is fiction. In fact, there have been countless missions to the Moon, with 6 missions landing man on the Moon by NASA alone. The last time man took a trip to Earth's natural satellite was with the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, and now NASA has shared a glimpse of that trip.
On a daily basis, NASA shares an Astronomy Picture of the Day which gives us an amazing insight about the various mysteries of the Universe. Today's image is a snapshot of the lunar dust and a lunar rover repaired with duct tape during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972. NASA astronauts repaired one of the fenders of the lunar rover to keep lunar dust at bay with the help of duct tape.
NASA explained, "On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, the history of constant micrometeorite bombardment has blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith. For the Apollo astronauts and their equipment, the pervasive, fine, gritty dust was definitely a problem. Fifty years ago, on the lunar surface in December 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan needed to repair one of their rover's fenders in an effort to keep the rooster tails of dust away from themselves and their gear. This picture reveals the wheel and fender of their dust covered rover along with the
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