John F. Kerry

the LRO has just started orbiting and photographing the moon in a new level of unprecedented detail to help us plan the engineering and particular measurement type planning that were gonna need in the next few years to build moon habitats etc...cool !!!

but first it took a high res picture of the apollo 11 first men on the moon by america in 1969 site !!!. even cooler!!!







NASA - LRO Gets Additional View of Apollo 11 Landing Site


awesome, some science fiction to bring in 2010!

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Enlargement of area surrounding Apollo 11 landing site. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."

With those eight words, astronaut Neil Armstrong let the world know that Apollo 11 had landed safely on the moon, beginning humankind's first exploration of another world. The landing certainly kept the mission operations crew in suspense as Armstrong maneuvered around the bouldery ejecta on the northeast flank of West Crater, finally settling down almost a kilometer to the west with only tens of seconds of fuel remaining.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team earlier released two pictures of the Apollo 11 landing site, each taken under different lighting conditions and at lower resolution than this image. This is LROC's first picture of Apollo 11 after LRO dropped into its 50 km mapping orbit. At this altitude, very small details of Tranquility Base can be discerned. The footpads of the LM are clearly discernible. Components of the Early Apollo Science Experiments Package (EASEP) are easily seen, as well. Boulders from West Crater lying on the surface to the east stand out, and the many small craters that cover the moon are visible to the southeast.

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