The majesty of the Hadley landing site from the top hatch of the LM after touchdown, stand up EVA, 31 January - 9 February 1971

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, printed 1971, numbered "NASA AS15-85-11372" (NASA MSC) in black in top margin, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

Shortly after the LM Falcon landed on the Delta called Hadley-Apennine near the north center of the Moon, Scott and Irwin gave the scientists in Houston a thorough description of the surrounding countryside and, rather than restricting themselves to the views out the forward-facing windows, they donned helmets and gloves for what was known as a “Stand-up EVA”, the only one performed on the Moon. They bled all the air out of the cabin, then Commander David Scott opened the overhead hatch. Standing on the ascent engine cover with his upper body outside the spacecraft, and bracing himself in the opening he took a series of pictures all the way round the horizon with the Hasselblad 70-mm camera.

“There’s nothing on the Earth that compares with it [the lunar surface]. I’ve never read anything that can adequately describe how well you can see. Whatever that means. It’s crisp, and it’s clear, and it’s distinct, and it’s definitive.”
David Scott (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 107:10:40 GET)

Literature:
Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report (NASA SP-289), appendix D, figure D-1-a.