Seen here the 4 km tall and 25 km wide Haldey mountain as captured from orbit by Apollo 15.
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On July 20, 1969, NASA put two astronauts on the Moon. They chose to land the Apollo 11 spacecraft in a plain, not so rocky region called the Sea of Tranquility for primarily engineering simplicity. Nevertheless, the landing site had interesting scientific benefits as well.
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