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At Mission Control in Houston, a geologist pores over seismometer tracings sent from Apollo 11's passive seismic experiments package. Designed to measure meteoroid impacts and moonquakes, the gear was exquisitely sensitive, even registering Aldrin's and Armstrong's footsteps and objects that they tossed onto the surface.
July 17, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA
| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings
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