Honoring Neil: Dramatic New Video Brings You to the Dazzling Lunar Surface

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by NANCY ATKINSON on AUGUST 31, 2012

This video has been in production for a while and was not originally meant to honor Neil Armstrong, but it very well could memorialize the first human explorer to set foot on the Moon. This short video titled “From the Earth to the Moon” provides a stunning and inspirational view of the lunar surface, and “highlights vast portions of the lunar surface that have yet to be explored, and demonstrates how new images are revealing dramatic details of future landing sites suitable for both robotic and human missions,” writes lunar scientist David Kring, one of the researchers behind creating this video.
All of the footage is from actual images and data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter; there are no artist renditions or animations.
“The scenes in the video are so dramatic that you may find yourself reaching out to pick up a rock and becoming restless to walk among the lunar peaks,” writes Kring.

As stunning as the video is, it also reminds us that humans have not visited its surface since 1972, even though it is one of the best and most accessible place in the solar system to explore the fundamental principles of our origins, Kring says.


Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/97151/dramatic-new-video-brings-you-to-the-dazzling-lunar-surface/

[a geek named Bob]

1. I still think we ought to go back...

RIGHT &*&^%$ NOW.