Apollo 14 Heads for Home

When leaving lunar orbit in February 1971, the crew of Apollo 14 watched this Earthrise from their dispute module Kittyhawk. With Earth’s sunlit crescent factual peaking over the lunar horizon, the cratered terrain in the foreground is along the lunar farside. For fine, while orbiting the Moon, the crew would possibly perchance well watch Earth upward push and space, however the Earth hung stationary in the sky over Fra Mauro Depraved, their landing attach on the lunar ground. Rock samples introduced relief by the Apollo 14 mission included a 20 pound rock nicknamed Mountainous Bertha, later obvious to bear a doubtless fragment of a meteorite from planet Earth.