- Oblique view of North America
Apollo 16 hand-held Hasselblad photograph of North America on Earth. This northeasterly
looking view was taken on 16 April 1972 shortly after translunar injection.
Mexico and the Baja peninsula can be seen at lower center. Above that much of
the Rocky Mountains are visible. Lake Michigan and Lake Superior can be identified
towards the top, parts of Central America at lower right and the Bahama Banks
at upper right. For scale, the Baja peninsula is about 1200 km long. (Apollo
16, AS16-118-18873)
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Full Earth showing North America and the Pacific Ocean
Apollo 16 view of the Earth taken with a hand-held Hasselblad camera about an
hour and a half after translunar injection on 16 April, 1972. Most of the United
States is visible at right center, including Lake Michigan and Lake Superior
and Florida. Mexico and part of Central America are also visible. The slightly
different shade of blue below Florida is the Bahama Banks. The Earth is 12,740
km in diameter and north is at roughly 1:00. (Apollo 16, AS16-118-18885)
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