{"id":93851,"date":"2019-07-18T16:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary"},"modified":"2019-07-18T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:02:37","slug":"nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"NASA Releases Stunning Panoramas of Apollo Landing Sites for 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a thunderous launch on a Saturn V rocket, a three day journey through the unforgiving environment of space and a daring descent in the Lunar Module, you\u2019re here: standing on the Moon. Look around and take in the sights of the surface, just as Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt saw it almost 5 decades ago. #Apollo50th<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA imagery experts at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasa2explore\/sets\/72157635384998736\/\">have \u201cstitched together\u201d images from the Apollo landing sites on the Moon<\/a><\/strong> for a 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary reminder of what the 12 humans who walked on its surface experience visually.<\/p>\n<p>Individual images taken by the Apollo astronauts were pulled together by NASA imagery specialist Warren Harold at Johnson, and the accuracy of the unique perspective they represent was verified by Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison \u201cJack\u201d Schmitt, the only geologist to walk on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Valley of Taurus-Littrow on the Moon presents a view that is one of the more spectacular natural scenes in the Solar System,\u201d Schmitt said about the images stitched together from his Moon base Station 5 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a thunderous launch on a Saturn V rocket, a three day journey through the unforgiving environment of space and a daring descent in the Lunar Module, you\u2019re here: standing on the Moon. Look around and take in the sights of the surface, just as Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt saw it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}