How to See All Six Apollo Moon Landing Sites. Walk in the astronauts' footsteps as you explore the places they visited in the heyday of Apollo program. Use these helpful maps to guide you to the Apollo landing sites. Apollo 1. 7 astronaut Harrison Schmitt with the American flag. Earth glows blue 2. Credit: NASAWe all love dark moonless skies, but let's face it, the Moon's out two weeks a month.

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How can you ignore it? You've doubtless observed craters and mountain ranges and probed for volcanic features like rills and domes. But here and there among the nooks and crannies, you'll find six of the most remarkable locales on the Moon — the Apollo landing sites. They're the only places where humanity has achieved one of its oldest dreams and "touched the stars". As you're well aware, no telescope on Earth can see the leftover descent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules or anything else Apollo- related. Not even the Hubble Space Telescope can discern evidence of the Apollo landings.

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The laws of optics define its limits. Hubble's 9. 4. 5- inch mirror has a resolution of 0. Moon's distance. In visible light, it's 0. Given that the largest piece of equipment left on the Moon after each mission was the 1.

Lunar Module, you can see the problem. Did I say problem? No problem for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which can dip as low as 3. Six Apollo missions successfully landed on and departed from the Moon between July 1.

December 1. 97. 2. Top, clockwise: James Irwin salutes the flag at Hadley Rill; Harrison Schmitt collects rock samples in the Taurus- Littrow Valley; Buzz Aldrin's footprint in the lunar regolith; Charlie Duke placed a photo of his family on the Moon and took a picture of it; Edgar Mitchell photographs the desolate landscape of the Fra Mauro highlands; and Pete Conrad jiggles the Surveyor 3 probe to see how firmly it's situated. NASA, collage by Bob King.

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LRO's orbital imagery and photos taken in situ by the Apollo astronauts will serve to illuminate our ramblings from one Apollo site to the next. All the landing sites lie on the near side of the Moon and were chosen to explore different geologic terrains. Astronauts bagged 8.

Moon rocks, which represented everything from mare basalts to ancient highland rocks to impact- shattered rocks called breccias. Apollo 1. 2 astronauts even found the first meteorite ever discovered on another world, the Bench Crater carbonaceous chondrite.

Photos of each of the six Apollo landing sites photographed from low orbit by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. ALSEP stands for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package. The astronauts' tracks as well as the rover and other items are plainly visible. Click for a large version. NASA / LROWith the Moon waxing this week and next, the advancing line of lunar sunrise will expose one site after another beginning with Apollo 1.

Moon's eastern hemisphere and finishing with Apollos 1. To see each locale, a 4- inch or larger telescope magnifying 7. But the larger the scope and higher the power, the closer you'll be able to pinpoint each landing site and better able to visualize the scene. Below are the approximate times and current dates after New Moon when each Apollo landing site first becomes fully illuminated by the Sun: * Apollos 1. Six days past New (April 2.

Apollo 1. 6: Seven days, or First Quarter (April 2. Apollo 1. 5: Eight days (April 2. Apollos 1. 2 and 1. Ten days (April 2.

All the landing sites can be found using these five prominent lunar craters. North is up in this view. Credit: NASA/LROThe base images for all the sites are photographs taken by the LRO.

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I encourage you to drop by the ACT- REACT Quick. Map site, which features a zoomable lunar map of LRO photos that will practically take you down to the lunar surface. Click the "paper stack" icon and uncheck Sunlit Region to see a fully- illuminated Moon, no matter the current phase.

Checking the Nomenclature box will bring up the names of craters, rills and many other features. More details about each of the LRO Apollo photos can be found here.

Following are maps for pinpointing each Apollo landing site. South is up, and clicking on the images will link you to higher resolution versions. Time to strap on your boots and follow in the footsteps of the first people to walk on the Moon. Apollo 1. 1 landed on July 2. Sea of Tranquility. For an extra challenge, see if you can spot the three craters named for the Apollo 1.

They range from 2. Armstrong) to 1. 5 miles (Collins) across. NASA / LROPete Conrad and Alan Bean achieved a pinpoint landing on Nov. Ocean of Storms south of the grand rayed crater Copernicus, landing within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 probe. NASA / LROApollo 1. Feb. 5, 1. 97. 1, in the Fra Mauro formation. Somewhere in the scene are two golf balls hit by Alan Shepard with a makeshift club he brought from Earth.

NASA / LROJames Irwin and David Scott spent three days alongside Hadley Rille in the rugged Apennine Mountains after landing Apollo 1. July 3. 0, 1. 97.

This was the first mission to use the Lunar Rover, greatly expanding the amount of ground the astronauts could cover. NASA / LROApollo 1. April 2. 1, 1. 97.

Cayley Formation, where astronauts John Young and Charles Duke hoped to find older Moon rocks than those previously found near the younger maria. Watch Captain Phillips Online Freeform. NASA / LROHarrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan landed the final Apollo mission in the Taurus- Littrow Valley on Dec.

The astronauts once again searched for ancient highland material. In the process, they broke a rear fender on the lunar rover and re- attached it using maps and duct tape. Credit: NASA/LROSpeaking of landings . Mars, where historically, more landings have failed than succeeded. Download our free ebook, Mars Landings: Past & Present, and you'll also receive our weekly e- newsletter with the latest news from the world of astronomy.