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Moon over Arizona

September 12th, 2007 by Wes

Simulated Worlds

A few years before the first landing of an Apollo crew on the moon, scientists recontoured a volcanic field just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, with artificial impact craters resembling those found on Mare Tranquillitatis, the proposed first manned American landing site.

With high explosives, they terraformed a lunar surrogate right here on the surface of the earth.

This is interesting, I never knew about this training ground. Neat stuff.

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