             APOD: 2018 July 21 - Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama

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                                 2018 July 21
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                       Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama
          Image Credit: Neil Armstrong [3] , Apollo 11 [4] , NASA [5]

Explanation: Have you seen a panorama from [6]  another world lately?
Assembled from high-resolution scans [7] 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 [8] . The images were taken by Neil Armstrong [9]
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 [10] ) 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 [11] , were intended to initially document the landing site in case an
early departure was necessary.

                  Tomorrow's picture: microwave universe [12]

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  [2] image/1807/a11pan1040226lftsm.jpg
  [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong
  [4] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/ a11.crew.html
  [5] http://www.nasa.gov/
  [6] ap150808.html
  [7] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/ images11.html#a11pan5449-53
  [8] http://www.lroc.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/
629-Houston,-Tranquility-base-here..html
  [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong
  [10] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/ images11.html#5449
  [11] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
  [12] ap180722.html
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  [24] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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