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On July 20th, 1946
Apollo landed on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Edwin
Buzz Aldrin aboard. Apollo 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
Lunar module setting up experiments and collecting samples.
aboard.
LROC imagery makes it possible to visit the landing site using 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
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