Please see this link:

<http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/21jul_llr.htm?list943642>



"The most famous thing Neil Armstrong left on the moon
35 years ago is a footprint, a boot-shaped depression
in the gray moondust. Millions of people have seen
pictures of it, and one day, years from now, lunar
tourists will flock to the Sea of Tranquility to see
it in person. Peering over the rails … "hey, mom, is
that the first one?"

Will anyone notice, 100 feet away, something else
Armstrong left behind?

Ringed by footprints, sitting in the moondust, lies a
2-foot wide panel studded with 100 mirrors pointing at
Earth: the "lunar laser ranging retroreflector array."
Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong
put it there on July 21, 1969, about an hour before
the end of their final moonwalk. Thirty-five years
later, it's the only Apollo science experiment still
running."


Jim Phillips



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