The video above provides an unusual split - screen view of Armstrong's hop
from the lunar module landing gear to the dusty lunar surface (much more footage and background is here).
Just like contamination
from lunar module exhaust, material from the solar wind could produce amino acids during sample workup.
Schultz thought that when small comets slam into the Moon's surface — as they occasionally do — the coma may scour away loose soil from the surface, not unlike the gas
from the lunar modules.
Not exact matches
I collect artifacts
from the Apollo space program and have a
lunar module decent engine in my private museum.
«You could see that the whole area around the
lunar modules was smooth and bright because of the gas
from the engines scoured the surface,» Schultz said.
If contamination
from the exhaust produced the amino acids, then a sample taken
from right under the Apollo 17
lunar module should have more amino acids than a sample taken far away.
A group of American space scientists
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) saw and photographed the
lunar lander and a return
module during a visit to the Moscow Aviation Institute last November.
«We can support crewed science operations
from the
module in various
lunar orbits.
Tom Sachs: Space Program documents his 2007 installation of a
lunar module and control center, and a performance art staging of a complete «
lunar» mission
from launch to splashdown, at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.