Yep.
This image taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in 2010 depicts the tracks that Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin made 39 years earlier while driving their lunar rover. The Moon has no atmosphere, and thus no wind or rain to sweep footprints or tire tracks away.
LRO’s primary goal was to make a 3D map of the Moon’s surface from lunar polar orbit as part of a high-resolution mapping program to identify landing sites and potential resources, to investigate the radiation environment, and to prove new technologies in anticipation of future automated and human missions to the surface of the Moon.
Among LRO’s achievements was to take extremely high-resolution photographs of landing sites of several older lunar landers and impact vehicles, such as landing sites from all of the Apollo landing missions (plus Surveyor III near the Apollo 12 site) and the Apollo 13, 14, 15 and 17 Saturn IVB upper stages. Other targets included the later Ranger impact probes, a...
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