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Apollo 16 astronauts test a lunar rover in the Coso Volcanic Field, California

By California Volcano Observatory November 1971 (approx.)
Two white men wearing jeans, button-down shirts, and bulky harnesses with huge rectangular backpacks sit on the frame of a stripped-down white motorized buggy-like vehicle. Their harnesses have two old-fashioned video cameras pointing forward. On the front of the vehicle, a large metallic mesh radio antenna dish is raised on a pole. In the background, mounds of dark, jagged, black lava rock sit in front of a skyline composed of several rounded red hills of volcanic scoria.
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Apollo 16 astronauts John Young (right) and Charlie Duke (left) ride in Earth-adapted Lunar Roving Vehicle "Grover" in the Coso Volcanic Field near Ridgecrest California, November 1971. Photo by NASA.

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