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Apollo 11 Footsteps

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Relive the Apollo 11 surface traverse with the new upgrade to the LROC Featured Sites

Relive the Apollo 11 surface traverse with the new upgrade to the LROC Featured Sites. Credits: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team carefully reconstructed the traverse of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on a minute-by-minute basis from the 16 mm sequence camera, television video, voice transcript, surface photography, and LROC NAC images (as well as pre-existing work). In many cases the locations of the astronaut activities were significantly improved.

Improvements include:

  • Accurately geolocated astronaut footpaths
  • Narrowed down the area of the selected / bulk sample collection
  • Geolocated significant observations
  • Compared before and after images to annotate sample locations on Hasselblad panoramas
  • Produced comprehensive traverse timeline

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