Walking on the Moon: Apollo 11 - Chart Porn

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:

on a photo:

4 Responses to Walking on the Moon: Apollo 11

Nigel Hawtin

August 4th, 2010 at 5:56 am

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

Tricky P

August 4th, 2010 at 12:20 pm

nice! is that futura?

JRW

August 10th, 2010 at 9:56 am

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.

francesco

September 4th, 2010 at 2:48 pm

very good iezzi

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