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as well as the darker trails of the astronauts’ bootprints, including Armstrong’s jaunt eastward to the rim of Little West crater

the total area Neil and Buzz explored it would easily fit within the infield of a baseball diamond!

Armstrong’s visit to the crater’s edge was an unplanned excursion. He used the vantage point to capture a panoramic image of the historic site:

Previously the LROC captured the Apollo 15 landing site, which included the tracks of the lunar rover — as well as the rover itself

Arizona State University featured the latest similarly high-resolution view of the Apollo 12 site

This location has the honor of being two landing sites in one: Apollo 12 and the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had landed on April 20, 1967 – two and a half years earlier!

the US flag planted by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean isn’t itself visible, the shadow cast by it is.

Apollo 12 was the only mission to successfully visit the site of a previous spacecraft’s landing, and it also saw the placement of the first Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), which included a seismometer and various instruments to measure the lunar environment

Apollo 12 and 14, which allowed for more time on the surface