Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples at Station 1 during the first Apollo 17 EVA (extravehicular activity).
This picture was taken by astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of the mission, at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The lunar rake, an Apollo lunar geology hand tool, was used to collect discrete samples of rocks and rock chips ranging in size from 0.
5 inches (1. 3 centimeters) to 1 inch (2.
