NASA’s Apollo 11 mission broke new ground in a lot of obvious ways. Landing humans on the lunar surface was a huge accomplishment, as was the first (and each subsequent) moonwalk. But not everything about Apollo 11 is mere nostalgia for NASA, and as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new post, one experiment installed on the Moon is actually still returning useful data today.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn’t just walk on the Moon, they conducted a whole heap of science while there. One of the experiments required the installation of a glass prism array on the surface. Later, Apollo 14 and 15 added even more prisms, and scientists have been using them to measure the distance between the Moon and Earth ever since.
BGR Top Deals:
- 5 of the most popular PlayStation 4 games out right now are all on sale starting at $18
- Wi-Fi will never be as fast as Ethernet, and this $43 box turns any wall outlet into a gigabit Ethernet port
Trending Right Now:
- The newest Pixel 4 announcement proves Google was wrong about Pixel cameras all along
- Amazon’s working on a show that could be as epic as ‘Game of Thrones’ – here’s the first teaser trailer
- 53,217 pounds of frozen meatballs were just recalled for a reason you never would have guessed
Apollo 11 installed an experiment on the Moon that is still working today originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 19:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report