{"id":8371,"date":"2014-07-21T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2014-07-21T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:02:34","slug":"video-a-new-look-at-the-apollo-11-landing-site-from-the-lro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8371","title":{"rendered":"Video: A new look at the Apollo 11 landing site from the LRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>\u00a0has produced new imagery of the Apollo 11 landing site:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xUcYQ7slmRw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969, a little after\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1b7fcc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xUcYQ7slmRw&amp;feature=youtu.be#\">4:00<\/a>\u00a0in the afternoon Eastern Daylight Time. The Lunar Module, nicknamed Eagle and flown by Neil Armstrong and Edwin &#8220;Buzz&#8221; Aldrin, touched down near the southern rim of the Sea of Tranquility, one of the large, dark basins that contribute to the Man in the Moon visible from Earth. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about two hours outside the LM setting up experiments and collecting samples. At one point, Armstrong ventured east of the LM to examine a small crater, dubbed Little West, that he&#8217;d flown over just before landing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The trails of disturbed regolith created by the astronauts&#8217; boots are still clearly visible in photographs of the landing site taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) narrow-angle camera (LROC) more than four decades later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LROC imagery makes it possible to visit the landing site in a whole new way by flying around a three-dimensional model of the site. LROC scientists created the digital elevation model using a stereo pair of images. Each image in the pair shows the site from a slightly different angle, allowing sophisticated software to infer the shape of the terrain, similar to the way that left and right eye views are combined in the brain to produce the perception of depth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The animator draped an LROC photograph over the terrain model. He also added a 3D model of the LM descent stage\u2014the real LM in the photograph looks oddly flat when viewed at an oblique angle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Although the area around the site is relatively flat by lunar standards, West Crater (the big brother of the crater visited by Armstrong) appears in dramatic relief near the eastern edge of the terrain model. Ejecta from West comprises the boulders that Armstrong had to avoid as he searched for a safe landing site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Apollo 11 was the first of six increasingly ambitious crewed lunar landings. The exploration of the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts, when combined with the wealth of remote sensing data now being returned by LRO, continues to inform our understanding of our nearest neighbor in space.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\u00a0has produced new imagery of the Apollo 11 landing site: From the caption: Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969, a little after\u00a04:00\u00a0in the afternoon Eastern Daylight Time. The Lunar Module, nicknamed Eagle and flown by Neil Armstrong and Edwin &#8220;Buzz&#8221; Aldrin, touched down near the southern rim of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: A new look at the Apollo 11 landing site from the LRO<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-multiple-media","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2b1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14655,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14655","url_meta":{"origin":8371,"position":0},"title":"Video: Apollo 11 lunar landing anniversary","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been 48 years since humans first walked on the Moon and 45 years too long since humans walked on the Moon. 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