Quoted: “This work on Martian landslides relates to further understanding of lunar landslides such as the Light Mantle Avalanche I studied in the valley of Taurus-Littrow during Apollo 17 exploration and have continued to examine using images and data collected more recently from lunar orbit,” added University of Wisconsin Madison’s Professor Harrison Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut who walked on the Moon in December 1972 and completed geologic fieldwork while on the lunar surface.
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