Announced the last two photos on the moon

The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has released a picture of the crew on the Apollo 17 spacecraft searching for geological specimens on the moon 40 years ago.

Harrison Schmitt astronaut stands next to the mouthpiece
Shorty pit on the moon in a photo taken by Eugene Cernan.

After Apollo 17 landed on the moon in December 1972, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, two astronauts on the flight, moved in the Taurus-Littrow valley for about 22 hours to collect specimens. substances for the study of the geological history of the moon, while astronaut Ronald Evans flew with the spacecraft above, NASA said.

The two astronauts on the moon took 110kg of soil and rock to bring back to Earth. In addition, they also performed some geological, atmospheric and biological tests on the moon and its orbit.

Apollo 17's flight is the sixth flight and also the Apollo's last moon flight. The ship returned to Earth on December 19, 1972.

Astronaut Cernan took a picture while he and Schimitt moved in the valley with the probe. In the photo, the astronaut Schmitt stands on the left of the probe on the shorty crater, near where he spotted the moon's orange soil.

Cernan and Schmitt are still the last two to step on the moon so far.