Apollo 11: Armstrong's Lunar Selfie
Explanation:
A
photograph of Buzz Aldrin
standing on the Moon taken by
Neil
Armstrong,
was digitally reversed to create this lunar selfie.
Captured in July 1969 following the Apollo 11 moon landing,
Armstrong's original
photograph
recorded not only the
magnificent desolation
of an
unfamiliar world,
but Armstrong himself reflected in Aldrin's curved visor.
In the
unwrapped
image,
the
spherical
distortion
of the reflection in Aldrin's helmet has been reversed.
The transformed view features Armstrong himself
from Aldrin's perspective.
Since Armstrong took the original picture,
today the image
represents
a fifty-four year old lunar selfie.
Aldrin's visor reflection in the original image appears here on the left.
Bright (but distorted) planet
Earth hangs in the lunar sky
above Armstrong's figure, toward the upper right.
A foil-wrapped leg of the
Eagle
lander
and Aldrin's long shadow stretching
across the lunar surface are prominently visible.
In 2024
NASA's Artemis II mission
will return humans to the Moon.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
