Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2024 July 20
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                         Apollo 11 Landing Panorama
           Image Credit: [3]Neil Armstrong, [4]Apollo 11, [5]NASA

   Explanation: Have you seen [6]a panorama from another world lately?
   [7]Assembled from high-resolution scans of the original film frames,
   this one sweeps across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11
   landing site [8]on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility. The images were taken
   55 years ago by [9]Neil Armstrong looking out his window on the Eagle
   Lunar Module shortly after the [10]July 20, 1969 landing. The frame at
   the far left ([11]AS11-37-5449) is the first picture taken by a person
   on another world. Thruster nozzles can be seen in the foreground on the
   left (toward the south), while at the right (west), the shadow of the
   Eagle is visible. 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 [12]walking on
   the lunar surface, were intended to document the landing site in case
   an early departure was necessary.

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    Authors & editors: [24]Robert Nemiroff ([25]MTU) & [26]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([27]UMCP)
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References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/a11pan1040226lftsm.jpg
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong
   4. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo-11.html
   5. http://www.nasa.gov/
   6. https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-fords-an-ancient-river-to-reach-science-target/
   7. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#a11pan5449-53
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190719.html
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong
  10. https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-11/
  11. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#5449
  12. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240719.html
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
  16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  17. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  22. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=240720
  23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240721.html
  24. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  25. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  26. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  27. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  29. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  30. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/
  31. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  32. https://www.nasa.gov/
  33. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/
  34. https://science.nasa.gov/learners
  35. http://www.mtu.edu/