People final landed on the Moon on 11 December, 1972, at 19:54 GMT. The Apollo 17 crew of Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent simply over three days on the floor earlier than coming dwelling. This picture, remastered by picture processor Andy Saunders, reveals the boot prints they left behind. Within the absence of the erosion that happens on Earth, these markings would look precisely the identical right now, half a century on.
