Alan Bean with a soil sample, Apollo 12

Apollo 12, November 20, 1969. Alan Bean holds up a special environmental sample container, a sealed tube Pete Conrad had just filled with soil on the second moonwalk, near Sharp Crater in the Ocean of Storms. Conrad, the photographer, stands mirrored in Bean's visor, an echo of Apollo 11's famous portrait. Bean later left NASA to paint the Moon, and this black-and-white frame is among the sharpest close portraits of any moonwalker.