An Apollo 12 Panorama
The Apollo 12 mission was the second ever to land humans on the Moon. The mission was dedicated to studying the Moon , developing techniques, and developing instruments that could be used in future lunar landings . Astronauts Charles (Pete) Conrad and Alan Bean spent just under two days on the lunar surface in November 1969, while Richard Gordon orbited above in the Command Module . Pictured above in this digitally stitched panorama, Alan Bean works near the Lunar Module . Scrolling to the right will reveal a dark color panorama where flat lunar terrain and a tall video camera are visible. Apollo 12 mission astronauts visited the site of the nearby Surveyor 3 robot spacecraft that had landed on the moon three years earlier.