Apollo landing sites: An observer's guide on how to spot them on the moon

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. Again. Shining brightly in our sky, it calls to us like a celestial siren, just as it always has done. NASA is still debating whether it should send astronauts straight to, bypassing the moon altogether, or only go to Mars after a number of successful precursor missions to Earth's natural satellite.

To see Apollo hardware, you have to go to the moon, and then either land next to the actual spacecraft, as the rovers might do later this year or next, or look down on them from orbit. The, has done just that, and has taken amazing images of the Apollo landing sites from orbit showing not just the spacecraft themselves, but the lunar rovers parked where they were left, and even the trails of bootprints left in the lunar dust by the explorers.

First, you need to know the general areas of the landing sites, and the key to doing that is to think of the moon as the face of a clock, with 12 o'clock at the top and 6 o'clock at the bottom. You can then find the rough areas of each mission's landing site quite easily, using the charts included in this guide.

, and place it at the bottom of your inverted field of view. To Copernicus' upper right you'll see the smaller crater Reinhold and beyond it the crater Lansberg. Apollo 12's landing site lies to the upper left of the 3.1-kilometer-deep Lansberg. landing site can be found close to one of the most impressive and most photographed 'crater chains' on the moon's surface.

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