Featured Map for 20 July 2014:
The Eagle Has Landed
45 years ago, the
Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM)
landed on the moon. Six hours later, Neil Armstrong and then Buzz Aldrin became
the first of 12 humans (so far) to set foot on another globe—still on
20 July 1969 in the United States—while
Michael Collins stayed in orbit aboard the Command Module (CM). Most of
us old enough to have witnessed the event live have clear memories of it.
(I was with my mom at my aunt and uncle's house in Kansas City.)
As part of its celebration of the historic event,
NASA made available
A New Look at the Apollo 11 Landing Site,
a visualization of the Apollo 11 landing site using data from the
Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter.
Today's Featured Map shows where Apollo 11 landed, along with the
sites of the other Apollo landings.
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