File:View of North America from Apollo 16 (AS16-118-18873).jpg

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A good view of Earth photographed shortly after trans-lunar injection of April 16, 1972. Although there is much cloud cover (over Canada and the oceans), the United States in large part, most of Mexico and some parts of Central America are clearly visible. Note Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, also note the Bahama Banks at upper right part of the sphere. A large part of the Rocky Mountain Range is also visible. Just beginning man's fifth lunar landing mission were astronauts John W. Young, commander; Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot; and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot. While astronauts Young and Duke descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Mattingly remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.

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current	13:31, 25 February 2021	4,095 × 4,095 (2.73 MB)	D2Owiki (talk \| contribs)	Reverted back to the original.
	02:33, 19 April 2015	4,095 × 2,938 (7.47 MB)	Jcpag2012 (talk \| contribs)	color corrected, re-cropped
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	00:14, 7 March 2015	4,095 × 4,095 (2.73 MB)	Jcpag2012 (talk \| contribs)	Transferred from http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo16/hires/as16-118-18873.jpg

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