Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2022 July 23
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                         Apollo 11 Landing Panorama
                  [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
   by [9]Neil Armstrong looking out his window of 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. 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 [12]walking on the lunar
   surface, were intended to initially document the landing site in case
   an early departure was necessary.

                    Tomorrow's picture: hexagon and rings
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    Authors & editors: [24]Robert Nemiroff ([25]MTU) & [26]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([27]UMCP)
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                         [33]NASA Science Activation
                           & [34]Michigan Tech. U.

References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2207/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/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-scouts-mars-sample-return-campaign-landing-sites
   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_pages/apollo/apollo-11.html
  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/ap220722.html
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  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=220723
  23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220724.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
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  30. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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  33. https://science.nasa.gov/learners
  34. http://www.mtu.edu/