The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969. It touched down near the southern rim of the Sea of Tranquility. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin spent about two hours outside the LM setting up experiments and collecting samples. At one point, Armstrong ventured east of the LM to examine a small crater, dubbed Little West. The trails of disturbed regolith created by the astronauts' boots are still clearly visible in photographs of the landing site taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) camera more than four decades later. The remote sensing data now being returned by LRO has created a new look of the Apollo 11 landing site. Video credit: NASA
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