The Snowman

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Sketch completed 23 December 2006
Drawing Copyright by Ulrich Lotzmann. All rights reserved.
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Ulli writes, "This sketch plays with the name of the Apollo 12 landing area. The principal landmark identifying the landing site was a pattern of craters called the 'Snowman' with Surveyor Crater as it's torso and Head Crater as ... well, yes ... its head. A labeled frame from a 16-mm film Dick Gordon shot through the sextant of the Command Module shows a rough outline of the Snowman, with Surveyor Crater, Head Crater, and the position of the LM marked as well." See, also, a discussion of how the Snowman may have gotten his name..


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