Why Does Nothing Change on the Moon?
Everything humans left on the Moon is still there.
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Transcript
“A fun fact that I find endlessly fascinating is that multiple spacecraft from multiple countries have imaged the Apollo landing sites: spacecraft from India, China, Japan, South Korea. And what’s interesting about that is that everything is pretty much exactly how we left it. All the footsteps are still there because there’s no wind or erosion on the moon. So everything is pretty much exactly how we left it. All of the objects that we left on the moon, such as the plaques, the lunar rovers, they’re all right where we left it. I think the American flags have been bleached quite a bit, because there’s no protection from the sun. But I think everything else is still there!”
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