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Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.
July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo ...
One of the moon's most impressive craters will guide you towards the Apollo 12 landing site in the Ocean of Storms. Just find the huge crater Copernicus , and place it at the bottom of your ...
When it comes to the Moon landings, one thing hoaxers always want to see is photographs of the landing sites. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as turning a telescope to the Moon and taking a ...
If you have binoculars or a small telescope, now is a great time to observe the moon, and it might even be possible to pick out the landing sites of some of NASA's Apollo moon missions. IE 11 is ...
Another Apollo celebration event just hit, and boy it’s a biggy: NASA released in-orbit photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that show the Apollo landing sites on the Moon, complete ...
See photos of NASA's historic Apollo moon landing sites of the late 1960s and early 1970s as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Obiter in lunar orbit today. Skip to main content.
Part of a pre-mission geological map covering the Apollo 17 landing site (David H. Scott and M. H. Carr), and published at a scale of 1:250,000. The area shown is 45km east to west. [Image: USGS] ...
The Apollo 12 landing site lies within the Moon’s huge Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Because this feature covers 812,000 square miles (2.1 million square km), we need to refine our ...
The Apollo 14 landing site as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA Launched June 18, the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter braked into an initially elliptical orbit around the moon on June 23.
The spacecraft’s camera photographed several Apollo landing sites. The NASA astronauts who flew to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s always brought American flags with them.
If you have binoculars or a small telescope, now is a great time to observe the moon, and it might even be possible to pick out the landing sites of some of NASA's Apollo moon missions. IE 11 is ...