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NASA's Apollo 12 mission sent three astronauts to the moon in November 1969 to make the second crewed lunar landing in history. See how that mission went in photos in our photo gallery here!
The photos were taken two weeks ago from 13 to 15 miles above the moon's surface and show the landing sites for Apollo 12, 14 and 17. These photos offer a sharper look that more clearly ...
This image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3 landing sites. This image was released July 9, 2013. These side-by-side images show Surveyor crater as seen by ...
Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the Apollo programme and the second to land on the Moon. Today, NASA includes the images in its historic archives, with straightforward titles like ...
Sharper views of Apollo 12, 14, 17 sites in new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 24, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 09 ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when ...
Tracks and equipment left on the moon by astronauts from three of the Apollo missions can be seen in new photos just released by NASA. Though not close-ups by any stretch of the imagination, the ...
The team hopes to see its first images of the Apollo 12 landing site next month. LRO is currently orbiting the moon on an elliptical path that takes it some 30 km over the moon’s south pole and ...
Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...