Cool Moon Facts by Whip

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Fact #022 Missions

The Apollo footprints are still there, and will be for millions of years.

No wind, no rain, no plate tectonics. Only micrometeorite bombardment slowly erodes the surface, at something like a millimetre per million years. The bootprints, the rover tracks and the flags will outlast most things humans have built on Earth, though the flags themselves have been bleached white by unfiltered sunlight.

Source: NASA history (opens in a new tab) · checked Aug 2026

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