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2019 July 20 Apollo 11 Landing Panorama Image Credit: Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, NASA 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 b...
This photographic illustration compares the size of Apollo 11 Landing Site 2 with that of the metropolitan New York City area. Site 2 was one of three Apollo 11 lunar landing sites. This was the planned site if Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, as scheduled. Apollo 11 did launch on schedule and landed on Site 2, which is located at 23 degrees 42 minutes 2...
2019 July 18 Tranquility Base Panorama Image Credit: Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, NASA Explanation: On July 20, 1969 the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle safely touched down on the Moon. It landed near the southwestern corner of the Moon’s Mare Tranquillitatis at a landing site dubbed Tranquility Base. This panoramic view of Tranquility Base was constructed ...
