Yes, they had stopped the rotation, which had absolutely nothing to do with heat from the Sun, there is none. The rotation was 'spin stabilisation'.During the EVA they may have stopped the rotation,
You are doing better than I am so far! I need to become more familiar with navigation in Celestia, mostly I have just managed to make my head spin. Do you think you might be able to determine where the Sun should have been at the time and location of the EVA's? There is a forum where there seem to be some people with a good understanding of the missions and are working on simulations:While the moon was at similar crescent stage for both, Apollo 16 10% lit, Apollo 17 2% lit...
https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/n ... ion.40421/
There is also a project that intends to use A.I. to try and figure out what was being said on the voice recordings that are now just transcribed as *garbled*. The astronauts were a pretty coarse bunch, lots of what must have been inside jokes and comments, much more to be learned still about their voyages. Haven't figured out the metal visor comment from A17 yet, but from other comments it seems space was so deep and black they really were nervous on the EVAs, thought they were going to be sucked into the deep, be devoured as Cargo puts it. Their depth perception circuits went haywire and they couldn't look into it for very long at all, like being in an isolation chamber for a while.