Section 1: EVA-3: Wake up; breakfast; suiting up; opening the front door; calibrating LRV NAV system; traverse to Station 6 via Turning Point Rock; field work at Station 6; traverse to Station 7.
Day 8 – Third Extravehicular Activity (EVA-3)
Operations at the SEP Transmitter
Approaching the Station 6 Split-Boulder
Section 2: Extensive field work around the Station 7 boulder; traverse to Station 8, passing the two large a,b boulders photographed from Station 6; Extensive field work around Station 8.
Station 8 – The Sculptured Hills
Section 3: Distinguishing between SWP and Bowen craters on the traverse to Station 9 at Van Serg Crater; surveying the breccia of the Van Serg ejecta blanket; taking three panoramas of the site; the long traverse to Challenger; investigating Gatsby, Sherlock and San Luis Rey Craters; ending the last lunar EVA; documenting the ALSEP site; the Olympic-style hammer throw.
Gatsby, Sherlock, and San Luis Rey Craters
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