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Lunar Orbiter 5 image from 1967, cropped to show the vicinity of the landing site of Apollo 11, used in mission planning. The image is centered precisely on a small crater called West crater (190 m in diameter), and the lunar module Eagle touched down about 550 m west of West Crater.
Map of Moon showing prospective sites for Apollo 11. Site 2 was chosen. ... The Apollo 11 landing is referenced in the songs "Armstrong, ...
Apollo 11 landing site photographed by LRO Post-Apollo lunar exploration missions have located and imaged artifacts of the Apollo program remaining on the Moon's surface. Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission beginning in July 2009 show the six Apollo Lunar Module descent stages, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ...
Mare Tranquillitatis was the landing site for the first crewed landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. After astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made a soft landing in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, Armstrong told flight controllers on Earth, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
1) The Sea of Tranquility 2) the Apollo 11 landing site 3) the Shioli crater the SLIM mission was targeting and 4) the Chandrayaan-3 lunar landing site - CNN/Getty Images/ISRO/lROC
We have the Apollo missions to thank for a lot of our geological knowledge about the moon. How geological maps made the Apollo moon landings worthwhile Skip to main content
Little West is a small crater (30-meter diameter) in Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, east of the Apollo 11 landing site known as Tranquility Base.. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle approximately 60 meters west of Little West Crater on July 20, 1969.
Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...