See the Moon Like the Apollo Astronauts with These Epic Panoramic Photos

[Judi Lynn]

By Passant Rabie 6 hours ago

Here's what the Apollo astronauts were looking at 50 years ago.

In order to provide panoramic views of the Apollo moon landing sites, NASA stitched together individual images taken by its 12 moonwalkers to paint several gorgeous panoramas.

For the 50th Apollo anniversary, NASA imagery specialist Warren Harold put the pictures together while Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, the only geologist to touch down on the lunar surface, verified the resulting accuracy of the images, NASA officials said in a statement.

Put yourself in the boots of a moonwalker by checking out some of our favorite Apollo panoramas from the landing missions between 1969 and 1972 below. For more cool moon panoramas, check out NASA's complete collection here.



A view of the lunar surface as captured by astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took man's first steps on the moon, at Tranquility Base of a crater he had noted during the descent to the moon.

(Image credit: NASA)

More:
https://www.space.com/apollo-moon-landing-sites-panoramas-photos.html

[AMAGAtsNTD365]

1. Nice!

Thanks for sharing.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thank you, AMAGAtsNTD365.

Welcome to D.U.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. Link to the *very* large originals on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/sets/72157635384998736/