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1. to build on the knowledge and expertise of the previous missions 11, and 12 (in addition to the other non-landing missions) .

2. To explore another region of the moon - the Fra Maura region where the geology and topography was very different from the other landing sites. In order that exploration was successful different regions had to be explored. Imagine an alien judging the earth as hot, dry and lifeless just because he happened, in his sole mission to earth, to land in the Sahara desert.

Well also to make shure the other apollos wern't flukes to test that it all didn't depend on a variable that coudn't stay constenet

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