A spacecraft that circles the moon captured a high quality photo of the moon. In this photo shows the tracks and trashes left by the Apollo astronauts in their moon visits from 1969 - 1972.
These images were taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which is located around 13 to 15 miles from the moons surface. The images shows the paths that the astronauts left while walking on the moon as well as ruts left by the moon buggy. Some experts can even identify some backpacks that the astronauts pitched out of their lunar landers on the way back to Earth.
"What we're seeing is a trail," said Arizona State University geology professor Mark Robinson, the orbiters chief scientist. "It's totally awesome," he added. Robinson also said that the orbiter isn't close enough to see individual footprints of the astronauts.
The images were snapped in August 2011 that shows the landing sites of Apollo 12, 14 and 17. The closest image taken were that of the Apollo 17 site of 1972, the last moon mission.
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