# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B0IH84GAL65
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15342806-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-07-20T05:32:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

On July 20, 1969, humanity left its first footprints on another world. Forty years later the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera captured this image of the descent stage of the Eagle, Apollo 11’s Lunar Module (indicated by the yellow arrow). The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched on June 18, 2009, and began sending back images of the Moon on June 23. It was launched to map out the surface of the Moon.

The Apollo astronauts came back to Earth with more than moon dust: their journey provided a perspective on Earth that humanity had never experienced. For the first time, we saw our planet as a whole, a small blue and white globe against the black vastness of space. In the 50 years that have passed since NASA landed on the Moon, the agency has continued to look back at Earth, using the view from space to learn how life, land, atmosphere, ocean, ice, and energy interact to create the Earth system that sustains us.

Credit: NASA 
#nasa #apollo50th #apollo11 #lunarsurface #moon

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lunarsurface, nasa, moon, apollo50th, apollo11

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