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1969 July 20 Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong announced his historical arrival at the ancient Mare Tranquillitatis lava plain with the such message NASA: “The Houston, the base of peace here, the eagle landed.”
Armstrong’s words spoken less than seven hours before him and colleague NASA Astronaut Edwin’s “Buzz” Aldrin took the first steps of humanity to the surface of another world, noted at the moment of water history. Now, however, the famous phrase could easily have been uttered from the opposite side of the lunar disk from the base of the dormant.
1968 February NASA’s Apollo Site Selection Board revealed five possible Apollo 11 landing sites – terminated from the list of 30 – including two on the opposite side of the moon disk from the base of the dormant, the Oceanus Propellarum (Storm Ocean).
For each of the 3 to 5 miles (5 to 8 kilometers) landing areas were intensively depicted in orbit and were eventually selected based on many different criteria. For example, each site had to be over 5 degrees from the moon’s equator to release the lowest fuel and not have large hills or deep craters under the Lander’s approach, which may have confused its landing radar. Each site also had to have a slope of less than 2 degrees, with relatively few craters and excellent lighting in the selected landing windows.
The 2 site at the sea of peace was eventually selected as the main landing location, and two of the remaining selected areas were assigned as unexpected cases of landing areas, which will be directed if Apollo 11 gigantic Saturn against the missile was delayed.
Buzz Aldrin depicted a walking moon on the Apollo 11 mission. | Credit: NASA
Read on to find out about the five areas of landing zones, considered the first steps of humanity to the other world. The common lunar region with every place can be easily found with the naked eye during the correct phases of the lunar, but we also added a more accurate map to those who observe the moon through the telescope. The 6 -inch volume will allow for larger craters to improve the places of candidates. Happy hunting!
Candidate 1 Site -Mare Ramy (34 ° to East, 2 ° 40 “North)
The first Apollo 11 landing space can be found on the southern shore of the sea and is best viewed as the moon approaches its first quarter lunar or over the lunar full, when the entire lunar surface is illuminated by the Earth’s perspective.
First, find a dark panel of the sea (mare tranquillistatis) located just above the moon in the equatorial moon surface region. If you are fighting, just look at the schedule below! This feature of the moon is a huge basaltic plain, which formed a billion years, when lava flows flooded giant impact pools before hardening in the cold space environment.
The sea of peace is large enough to easily see it without an eye. Using a telescope, you can also find the famous mascara crater (shown below) and draw an imaginary line to the east until you hit a brighter terrain patch rising from the south. The first Apollo 11 candidate landing area can be found in the lunar moon patch, bordering this outcrop to the east.
1 The site was located east of the Apollo 11 historic landing site, Mare Tranquillistatis. | Credit: Lorenzo di Cola/Nurphoto Photo (left) via Getty Images. NASA image (right), Anthony Woodo’s annotation
Candidate 2 Website – Tranquicity Base (23 ° 37 “East, 0 ° 45” North)
Quiet base, Apollo 11 Historical 1969 Landing places – can be found southwest of the seashore and, like its predecessor, is best viewed in the first quarter and full moon phases.
To take a closer look, first find a tightly divided Ritter and Sabine Craters in the western edge of the moon Sea. Then, three times, exceed the width of the Sabine crater from the lower stroke, leading to the right, width. This will give you an approximate place of humanity in another world.
Apollo 11 built at a sea of peace near the Ritter and Sabine Lunar Crater. | Credit: Lorenzo di Cola/Nurphoto Photo (left) via Getty Images. NASA image (right), Anthony Woodo’s annotation
Candidate 3 Site – Average Sinus (1 ° 20 “West, 0 ° 25” North)
The third candidate for our Apollo 11 landing location is in the Sinus Medii region in the center of the lunar surface of the Earth. The region where the landing area is located is almost the same between the northern edge of Ptolemy, and the smaller Ukerto crater is best viewed in a few weeks that pass the moon.
The Sinus Medii would have been an Apollo 11 landing location if the mission’s Saturn V was delayed just two days from its historical date until 1969. July 16th. Until July 18
The third potential landing on Apollo 11 was in the Sinus Medii region above the Ptolemy impact crater. | Credit: Photo (left) Roberts Powyant’s photo/Getty Images. NASA photo (right), Anthony Wood’s annotation.
Candidate Website 4 and 5 -Oceanus Storm (36 ° 25 “West 3 ° 30” to south, 41 ° 40 “West, 1 ° 40” north)
The Oceanus Properselum is playing in the last two Apollo 11 landing areas, which deals with a historic mission that is best viewed in the third quarter of the lunar, or phases of the full moon. Both can be found below a pronounced stroke emissions thrown to the Kepler crater to the north, and on the right of the Flameeep P formation.
If the launch of Apollo 11 Saturn V reduced by 1969. On July 21, the first steps of humanity on the moon would have left the Regolith coating “Oceanus Procellarum”. The “Priellarum Base” simply does not have the same ring or does it.
The fourth and fifth landing place for Apollo 11 was in the Oceanus Tiekellarum city in the western region of the Lunar Drive. | Credit: Photo (right) Yaorusheng via Getty. NASA photo (right), Anthony Wood’s annotation.
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