A telephoto view from the slope of Mons Hadley Delta at station 6A facing north shows Dune in the foreground. The LMFalcon is near the center.
Dune is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley–Apennine region. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin visited the south rim of it in 1971, on the Apollo 15 mission, during EVA 2. The south rim of Dune was designated Geology Station 4 of the mission.
Dune is located about 1.8 km east of Hadley Rille, less than 1 km south of the smaller Earthlight crater, and about 3 km south of the Apollo 15 landing site itself.
The crater was named by the astronauts after the novelbyFrank Herbert,[2] and the name was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973.[1]
References
^ abDune, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
^Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert, by Brian Herbert, 2004, page 244.
