Earth’s Moon - 1

ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN...one giant leap for mankind! There is only one world in our solar system besides Earth on which humans have walked—the Moon. The image above was taken by astronauts on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. Astronaut Harrison Schmitt is shown preparing to take a soil sample. The later Apollo missions, including 17, had a strong scientific focus. A few days after this image was taken, humanity left the Moon and has yet to return. Note the Sun in the upper left. It is daytime on the Moon, but with no air to scatter the light, the sky remains black