Apollo 11 lander spotted by lunar satellite

Images of the The Eagle – the Apollo 11 lander, just in time for the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's giant leap.

Apollo11 lander

From the Scientific American Gallery.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which reached orbit around the moon last month, passed over the Sea of Tranquility on Sunday and spied the Apollo 11 lunar module, still resting on the surface.

The lander set down on the moon by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in 1969 is at the center of this image, a small white dot [arrow] with a long shadow stretching to the right. Each pixel in the photograph, which comes from the LRO's Narrow Angle Camera, is 1.14 meters across, so the Apollo 11 craft is just a few pixels wide.

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