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[[File:A17 PSR Fig 6-59 Shorty Crater cross section.jpg|thumb|right|Schematic cross section through Shorty crater with vertical scale exaggerated]]
'''Shorty''' is a feature on Earth's [[Moon]], an [[impact crater]] in the [[Taurus–Littrow]] valley.<ref name=apod>[http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120624.html APOD - June 24, 2012]</ref> Astronauts [[Eugene Cernan]] and [[Harrison Schmitt]] visited it in 1972, on the [[Apollo 17]] mission.<ref name=apod/><ref>[https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010523.html APOD - May 23, 2001]</ref> It is the location of the famous "'''orange soil'''", which geologists believe to be small bits of rapidly-cooled molten rock ejected in a [[
{{quote|Shorty Crater is about 14 m deep. Based on our investigations at the site and later examination of photographs, the impact that formed it penetrated, in order, regolith on the avalanche deposit, the avalanche deposit, regolith on a basalt flow, a basalt flow overlying and protecting the orange and black glass layers, the orange and black glass layers, regolith on a second basalt flow, and, finally, the upper portion of that second flow. Orange and black glass clods and basalt boulders are spread throughout the ejecta blanket surrounding Shorty.|Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot [[Harrison Schmitt]] as quoted on the [[Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter|LROC Instrument]] website<ref name=lroc/>}}
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