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DescriptionApollo gnomon.png	English: Figure 45 of On the Moon with Apollo 16: A Guidebook to the Descartes Region (NASA publication N72-19879, April 1972, by Dr. Gene Simmons), with caption: Gnomon. This device is used to provide a physical scale and to callibrate the photometrlc properties of the samples on the Moon. It can also be seen in figure 46, an Apollo 14 photograph. The long central rod swings freely and indicates the vertical. lts shadow is used to determine direction from the known position of the Sun. The color scale, omitted from this sketch for simplicity, can be seen in other figures.
Date	April 1972
Source	On the Moon with Apollo 16: A Guidebook to the Descartes Region (NASA publication N72-19879, April 1972, by Dr. Gene Simmons)
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