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LESSON 3 · Grand Tour of the Solar System

PAUSE TO THINK

Will the Apollo astronauts' footprints ever fade?

Not for millions of years

The Moon has almost no atmosphere, so there is no wind or rain to erase them. The prints left by Apollo crews should stay sharp for millions of years, until slowly buried by micrometeorite dust.

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