Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Bright sunlight glints and long dark shadows mark this image of the lunar surface. It was taken July 20, 1969 by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first to walk on the Moon. Pictured is the mission's lunar module, the Eagle, and spacesuited lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin unfurling a long sheet of foil also known as the Solar Wind Composition Experiment.
Exposed facing the Sun, the foil trapped particles streaming outward in the solar wind, catching a sample of material from the Sunitself. Along with moon rocks and lunar soil samples, the solar wind collector was returned for analysis in earthbound laboratories.
Image and info via APOD:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit: Apollo 11, NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague)
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Sunlight has a way of making the foreign seem warm and inviting -- to our monkey brains anyway. 🤓👍
ReplyDeleteSome of Kubrick's best work.
ReplyDeleteThe LM always looks impossibly fragile. Because it didn't have to face atmospheric stress it was incredibly lightweight. Here it is, "undressed."
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All of that done with less processing capability that what we can wear on our wrist. It is remarkable how much we have come on, though not been back yet, no moon base alpha
ReplyDeleteChe strano, sembra che l'obiettivo della fotocamera abbia catturato l'immagine riflessa di una enorme astronave. Lo vedete quello che sembra un flusso di gas al centro immagine? Sembra il motore principale. Un fotomontaggio? Alla NASA qualcuno si vuole divertire.😀
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