Free Astronomy Magazine May-June 2019

15 MAY-JUNE 2019 ASTRONAUTICS project favored sites in the eastern hemisphere (the right half for the terrestrial observer). The missions resumed with the launch of Ranger 6. Its camera had been disabled by an electric arc, a problem that was not obvious until Procellarum. The last image showed details a few meters wide, which improved by a thousand times the resolution reached by the best telescopes. The ground appeared rather soft and rolling, devoid of the jagged structures often de- the system tried to start when the ship was close to its target in Mare Tranquillitatis. The fate of this project changed at the end of July 1964, when Ranger 7 fell on an area at the border be- tween Mare Nubium and Oceanus A POLLO 11 − Color film of Neil Armstrong on the Moon (no sound). The video, made from color footage captured by a 35mm film camera mounted to the LM, shows Armstrong collecting samples near the LM. Although they are not individually high-quality photos like those taken by the medium-format Has- selblad, you can make out his face in his helmet for a brief moment as his glare visor is raised. [NASA]