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Adapted from presentation by John W. Delano, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences University at Albany (SUNY) Adapted from presentation by John W. Delano, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences University at Albany (SUNY) Exploration of the Moon
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Apollo 11 landing video (left frame) with view of same area from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (right frame) Landing video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= gpmDNdm5tmg
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Pyramid of Cheops (2540 BCE) Pyramid of Cheops (2540 BCE)
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Apollo Saturn V on pad 39A
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Apollo 11 lift-off
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Apollo 11 landing site in SW Mare Tranquillitatis
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Apollo 11 July 20, 1969
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View looking WNW from rim of Little West Crater (Apollo 11 )
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Apollo 11: Astronaut Aldrin at the ALSEP site with seismometer and laser retroreflector
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Lunar laser retro reflectors Apollo 11 Apollo 14
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Apollo 11: Mare Tranquillitatis View looking toward the ENE Apollo 11: Mare Tranquillitatis View looking toward the ENE
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Earthrise as viewed from lunar orbit by crew of Apollo 11
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View from window of Apollo 11 LM Eagle shortly after landing in Mare Tranquillitatis
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Apollo 11 regolith breccia: 10018
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Apollo 12: Astronaut Bean descends LM ladder toward lunar surface
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Apollo 14: Alan Shepard on surface
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Descent and landing of Apollo 15 https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=XvKg68DcTZ A
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Apollo 15
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Apollo 15 basalt, 15016 “seatbelt rock” Station 3 (Rhysling)
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Apollo 16: Astronaut Young leaping and saluting US flag at Descartes landing site
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Apollo 17
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Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with Earth in the background
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