Sharper view of footprints, landing site, rover tracks on moon

NASA announced that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) — which has been orbiting the moon since 2009 — has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 sites on the moon. The images show tracks from the lunar rover used in the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, as well as the last footprints left on the moon by astronauts in the year 1972 — via redwolf.newsvine.com