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Apollo 17 Hasselblad image from film magazine 137/C - EVA-2.
This is Figure 6-58 of the Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report (NASA SP-330, 1973), which has the following caption:

North view across 110 m diameter Shorty Crater. Far crater wall, blocky benches encircling floor, and jagged rocks of central mound are visible.

Part of the text of the report referring to the figure is as follows:

The floor material, exposed in the central mound (fig. 6-58), is blocky and extremely jagged. It may differ in lithology from the basalts of the rim. The hummocks or benches that encircle the floor as well as portions of the walls are also blocky. However, the wall, the rim, and the outer flank of Shorty Crater consist largely of dark material that is much finer grained than the floor. On the crater rim, fragments as large as ~ 15 cm in diameter typically cover < 3 percent of the surface. Scattered coarser fragments, ranging up to at least 5 m in diameter, are present. The crater rim and flanks are pitted by scattered, small (to several meters) craters, the rims of which range from sharp to subdued. Typically, their ejecta are no blockier, except for clods, than the adjacent surfaces.

The photo was used as Figure 8-3 of the same report, which has the following caption:

Variable soil conditions inside Shorty Crater (station 4) as evidenced by different surface textures and slopes.
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This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: AS17-137-21001.

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