The Apollo 11 landing site is in the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis) on the Moon, where the Lunar Module Eagle touched down on July 20, 1969, and where Armstrong and Aldrin conducted their moonwalks before returning to Earth. The spacecraft then launched from the Moon and rejoined Collins in lunar orbit, ultimately returning to Earth and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969.[1][3]
Notes on context and visuals
- The exact landing coordinates are near the southwest edge of Mare Tranquillitatis, close to the Sabine crater pair (Ritter and Sabine) as seen in high-resolution lunar imagery.[1]
- NASA and ESA have produced detailed images and 3D visualizations of the site from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the descent stage, boot prints, and surrounding terrain many decades later.[6][8][9]
If you’d like, I can pull a current satellite image or a high-resolution panorama of the site and annotate how to locate it in the Moon’s southwest Mare Tranquillitatis using a simple guide.
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Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the descent stage of the Eagle lunar module.
science.nasa.govNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured its best view yet of the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon.
www.space.comThis lunar map is a mosaic of images taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft. The image shows the landing site of Apollo 11 and three prominent craters in the vicinity which have been named in honour of the astronauts on board the first mission to land humans on the Moon.
sci.esa.intNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured new images of the Apollo 11 moon landing site. Space agency officials turned it into a video.
www.space.comApollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969, a little after 4:00 in the afternoon Eastern Daylight Time. The Lunar Module, nicknamed Eagle and flown by Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, 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 LM setting up experiments and collecting samples. At one point, Armstrong ventured east of the...
svs.gsfc.nasa.govFind the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.
www.space.comThe spot where Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon is visible from Earth and is easy to spot through a telescope, provided you know how.
www.skyatnightmagazine.comThe Apollo 11 landing site as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
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