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**Astronomy Picture of the Day**
12 September 2026
**Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun**
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Image Credit: Apollo 11 , NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague)
Bright sunlight glints as long dark shadows mark this image of the surface of the Moon . It was taken on July 20, 1969 , by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong , the first to walk on the lunar surface. Pictured is the mission's lunar module, the Eagle, and spacesuited lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin. Aldrin is unfurling a long sheet of foil also known as the Solar Wind Composition Experiment . Exposed facing the Sun, the foil trapped particles streaming outward in the solar wind, catching a sample of material from the Sun itself. Along with 22 kilograms of moon rocks and lunar soil samples, the solar wind collector was returned for analysis in earthbound laboratories .
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