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First 8:42 of the House Rock EVA on Apollo 16
Source: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/a16.h...
At the very start, notice how Houston gets picked up by a helmet mike, showing the time delay.
Also notice they mention how hard it is to judge distances, this is better explained in the ALSJ journal text
ALSJ Journal Transcript excerpt:
167:36:03 England: We think that sounds like a great plan.
[Fendell pulls back on the zoom and pans right.]
167:36:07 Duke: Didn't need...(Stops to listen)
167:36:10 Young: Look at the size of that biggie (meaning House Rock)!
[Charlie crosses the TV field-of-view from right to left, headed for the Rover.]
167:36:11 Young: It is a biggie, isn't it. It may be further away than we think because...
167:36:17 Duke: No, it's not very far. It was just right beyond you (when he was sampling north of the Rover after 166:56:58).
167:36:19 Young: Theoretically, huh?
167:36:20 Duke: Yeah.
167:36:21 Young: Like everything else around here, a couple of weeks later (you still aren't there)...
[John is saying that things are always farther away than they seem and that trips take longer than he expects. Because there is no atmospheric haze to give an impression of distance, it is very difficult to judge the size and distance of distant objects.]
[In 1835, Charles Darwin had a similar problem judging distances while traveling in the Andes east of Santiago, Chile, in March 1835: "Travelers having observed the difficulty of judging heights and distances amidst lofty mountains, have generally attributed it to the absence of objects of comparison. It appears to me, that it is fully as much owing to the transparency of the air confounding objects at different distances, and likewise partly to the novelty of an unusual degree of fatigue arising from a little exertion,â€"habit being thus opposed to the evidence of the senses. I am sure that this extreme clearness of the air gives a peculiar character to the landscape, all objects appearing to be brought nearly into one plane, as in a drawing or panorama. The transparency is, I presume, owing to the equable and high state of atmospheric dryness." - from The Voyage of the Beagle, p 347.]
[Fendell stops the pan to give the Backroom another look into North Ray while he waits for John and Charlie to leave the Rover.]
[House Rock can be seen at CZ.2/80.6 in the "Descartes EVA-III 3 of 3" map in the Lunar Surface Procedures volume. As indicated in Figure 6-65 in the Preliminary Science Report, House Rock is about 12 meters tall, 16 by 20 meters across, and is about 220 meters from the Rover. At 167:17:38, John only slightly underestimated the distance of House Rock from the Rover as being 150 meters.]