Apollo 11 Success Brings Astronomy Down to Earth
SEP 01, 1969
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035786
With the success of the Apollo 11 moon walk, astronomy truly becomes a laboratory science. Observers can now hold an astronomical chunk in their own hands and can assault it with a wide range of standard terrestrial techniques. And from the moon itself a seismometer and reflector report on moonquakes and earth–moon distances.
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