by APOD Robot » Sat Jul 23, 2022 4:05 am
Apollo 11 Landing Panorama
Explanation: 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. The images were taken by
Neil Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module shortly after the
July 20, 1969 landing. 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 to 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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