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Our team chose the original Apollo 17 landing site called The Valley of Taurus-Littrow on the southeastern edge of the Sea of Serenity.  About 4 billion years ago, a mountain-sized asteroid or comet hit the Moon and blasted out a basin nearly seven hundred kilometers in diameter.  Around the rim of the Sea of Serenity, great blocks of rock were pushed out and up, forming a ring of mountains.  In places, the blocks quickly fell again, and left radial valleys among the mountains.  Taurus-Littrow is one such valley, located just south of Littrow Crater in the southwestern Taurus Mountains that form the highlands east of Sea of Serenity. [5]

We chose this site for two reasons: the geologic terrain of the area, plus the ability to photograph historic artifacts from the Apollo 17 mission.  We have also chosen that the lunar rover would land at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time to allow all sections of our nation to watch this historic event.