Eugene Cernan's Legacy: Apollo 17 Commander's Footprints Still on the Moon

The tracks Cernan — who died Monday (Jan. 16) at age 82 — and Apollo 17 crewmate Harrison Schmitt made on the moon's surface in December 1972 are still visible today, as these images captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show. The LRO photos reveal both the snaking footprints of Cernan and Schmitt and the tire tracks left in the lunar dirt by the Apollo 17 rover.