A black sky
No stars, although the sky was black. The camera was set for a sunlit surface and a white suit, and faint starlight never registered on the film.
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Read-only showcaseA photograph from the Moon, part by part
One photograph from the Moon, part by part, each opening a dark spotlight with pictures or film.
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Everything on this photograph
The same content as the picture, as text: every part and what it says when you open it.
The backpack
The portable life support system carried his oxygen, his cooling water and his radio. The box on top held an emergency supply of oxygen.
The visor
Its gold coating keeps out the Sun's glare, and it is also a mirror: in it is Neil Armstrong, taking this picture, and the lunar module behind him. Armstrong carried the camera for most of the moonwalk, so he appears in hardly any of its photographs.
The flag on his shoulder
The United States flag, sewn to the left shoulder of the suit.
The chest unit
The remote control for the backpack, worn on the chest where he could reach it: the radio, the cooling fan and the pump. His name is stencilled on its front.
The boots
Lunar overshoes, pulled on over the suit's own boots, with ribbed silicone soles - the pattern left in every print.
Bootprints
With no wind and no rain to wear them away, prints like these can last for a very long time.
A leg of Eagle
At the right edge of the frame, one of the lunar module's landing legs, wrapped in gold-coloured foil against the heat. The descent stage stayed on the Moon; the top half flew them home.
The crosses
A grid of crosses etched on a glass plate in front of the film, the réseau, printed on every frame so that distances and distortion in the picture can be measured.
About this picture
The picture under this example is the photograph itself, at Tranquility Base. Photograph AS11-40-5903 by Neil Armstrong, 20 July 1969. NASA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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