Bowen-Apollo is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley, located at the foot of the Sculptured Hills. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed to the southwest of it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. They referred to it as SWP crater during the mission, and a more subdued crater to the southeast of SWP was called Bowen. The IAU formally renamed SWP as Bowen-Apollo. It is located just east of Geology Station 8.
The two astronauts drove around the south rim of Bowen-Apollo.43D1S2(25) Apollo 17 Traverses at Lunar and Planetary Institute Bowen-Apollo is called SWP crater in the Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report,Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report (NASA Special Publication 330). Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C. 1973. and in some later publications. Soil sample 78120 was collected there, at the geology station designated LRV 11. Sample 78120 is a regolith breccia.Sample 78121
To the southwest of Bowen-Apollo are Cochise, Van Serg, and Shakespeare. To the west is Henry.
The crater was named by the astronauts after geologist Norman L. Bowen, originator of Bowen's reaction series.The Valley of Taurus-Littrow, Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal, Corrected Transcript and Commentary Copyright 1995 by Eric M. Jones
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External links Geological Investigation of the Taurus-Littrow Valley: Apollo 17 Landing Site