GeoSciTweeps (on a break)

Rotational curation account for geoscientists & earth scientists, a new tweep every week or fortnight.

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I'll be returning to my regular account, @acstadermann

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Thanks so much for having me this week on GeoSciTweeps, I'm signing off now! It was a pleasure! - Amanda

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In exactly one hour, at 7:56 Tucson time, Neil will have taken his first step on the Moon exactly 50 years ago. You have an hour to get ready for this momentus event!

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In total, Neil and Buzz collected over 20 kg of lunar samples over just about 2 hours 15 minutes outside the Lunar Module.

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Okay. Coherent thoughts. I can write coherent tweets.

Live streams of 50 years ago just reached the lunar landing. It's a couple hours still until Armstrong takes the first step.

'Eagle is at Tranquility'

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While on the Moon they deployed EASEP (an early version of ALSEP), which detected moonquakes and had a retroreflector.

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Armstrong: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
#Apollo11
#Apollo50

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Aldrin (Eagle): "CONTACT LIGHT."
#Apollo11
#Apollo50

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CAPCOM: "Eagle, Houston. You're GO for landing. Over."
Aldrin (Eagle): "Roger. Understand. GO for landing."
#Apollo11
#Apollo50

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Watch this for a live video stream!
https://t.co/3dxZdOIgQo

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Apollo 11. What a magnificent day. And I wasn't even alive for it.

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This is about the time to head over to @apollo_50th for their recount of the landing!