Walking on the Moon: Apollo 11

In: Maps Science

3 Aug 2010

Some cool map overlays showing how little of the moon we actually explored on that one day. On a soccer and baseball field:
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on a photo:

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4 Responses to Walking on the Moon: Apollo 11

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Nigel Hawtin

August 4th, 2010 at 05:56

Newscientist did a variation on this last year, using Googlearth. Have a look,

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17461-moon-landings-in-london-ny-sydney

thanks

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Tricky P

August 4th, 2010 at 12:20

nice! is that futura?

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JRW

August 10th, 2010 at 09:56

While short in distance, it was long in significance and impact. Such quantitative evaluations miss the point, and are like our fixation with short term stock returns.

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francesco

September 4th, 2010 at 14:48

very good iezzi

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