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December 19, 2013
Apollo 11 landing site
Have you seen a
panorama from another world lately? Assembled
from high-resolution scans of the original film frames, this one sweeps
across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11 landing site on
the Moon's Sea of Tranquility. Taken by Neil
Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module, the frame at the
far left (AS11-37-5449) is
the first picture taken by a person on another world. Toward the south, thruster
nozzles can be seen in the foreground on the left, while at the right, the
shadow of the Eagle is visible toward the west. For scale, the large, shallow
crater on the right has a diameter of about 12 meters. Frames taken from the
Lunar Module windows about an hour and a half after landing, before walking on the lunar surface, were
intended to initially document the landing site in case an early departure was
necessary.
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