NASA showed an incredible zoomed-in video of the Moon of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the lunar surface – still visible 53 years after the Apollo 11 landing.
“Today marks the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the first time humans set foot on the surface of another world,” the space agency said in a statement. Twitter, noting that 20 July is International Moon Day. “This video from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the footprints of the astronauts who are still there after so many years.”
NASA has released an incredible video of the Moon that enlarges the footprints of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, still visible 53 years after the Apollo 11 landing. Armstrong made history on July 20, 1969, by leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the Moon, pictured above.
NASA celebrated International Moon Day by releasing a video that zooms in on astronaut footprints that are still visible on the surface of the Moon 53 years later.
NASA notes that Apollo 11 is the most famous, but its previous missions paved the way for the landmark landing – including robotic explorers like Rover and Surveyor, as well as crewed missions like Apollo 8, “9 ” and “10”, which tested the entrance and exit from the moon. orbit.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been exploring the Moon since 2009 and has already transmitted more data back to Earth than any other agency planetary mission: a mind-blowing 1.4 petabytes.
By comparison, some estimates say that one petabyte is equivalent to 20 million tall filing cabinets or 500 billion pages of standard printed text.
NASA on Wednesday announced he chose three possible dates for his Artemis I mission, the first phase of his effort to send a woman and a colored person to the moon.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been exploring the Moon since 2009 and has already transmitted more data back to Earth than any other agency planetary mission: a mind-blowing 1.4 petabytes. This still image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter video shows the footprints of the astronauts still there after all this time.
NASA on Wednesday announced it had selected three possible dates for its Artemis I mission, the first phase of its effort to send a woman and a person of color to the moon. The image above is an enlarged image from a NASA video released today.
The US space agency plans to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center on August 29, with September 2 and 5 marked as reserve launch dates. Pictured above is the moon.
The US space agency plans to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center on August 29, with September 2 and 5 marked as reserve launch dates.
James Free, associate administrator at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., said the exact date would be determined about a week before launch.
Artemis I, which has experienced several delays over the past two and a half years, will finally launch an unmanned Orion capsule that will fly around the moon and return to the Atlantic Ocean.
News of the official launch comes just weeks after NASA held a final “dress rehearsal” that it deemed a success.
In 2019, NASA shared a series of stunning panoramic images to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings.
These incredible images of the Apollo landing site were made by combining pre-existing photographs to create a whole new look at the lunar surface.
Individual images taken by the Apollo astronauts were combined by NASA imaging specialist Warren Harold, and their accuracy verified by Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt.
“The Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Moon is a view that is one of the most spectacular natural scenes in the solar system,” Schmitt said of the images stitched together from his lunar base station 5 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
Individual images taken by the Apollo astronauts were combined by NASA imaging specialist Warren Harold, and their accuracy verified by Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt. Pictured above, astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks beside the lunar module during the Apollo 11 EVA.
The image above is the original photograph of astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon with the American flag hoisted in front of him.
“The massive walls of the valley are brightly lit by the sun, rise higher than the walls of the Grand Canyon, and soar to a height of more than 4,800 feet in the north and 7,000 feet in the south,” Schmitt added.
“At the same time, the peaks are set against a blacker than black sky — a contrast that goes beyond the experience of visitors from Earth.
“And above the valley wall of the South Massif, you can always see the house, the blue Earth swirling with clouds, only 250,000 miles away.”
NASA spent an entire week preparing a tribute to the astronauts who first set foot on the moon almost 50 years ago on July 20, 1969.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first two people on the moon, and since then only ten people have followed them – all Americans.
Michael Collins, their colleague who stayed in the Columbia module for 21.5 hours on the Moon, recently returned to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
