Humanity’s Touch on the Lunar Surface

You know how some people refuse to acknowledge that humans never went to the Moon?  That kind of head-in-the-Earth-sand thinking is somewhat sad and delusional, since the evidence lies before us in images taken of the Moon’s surface by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Those views show the sites of the Apollo 12, 14, and 17 landings in sharp detail. We see tracks across the dusty lunar surface left as people actually walked from the landers to various parts of the landing sites.   NASA released a set of images taken with the LRO’s Narrow Angle Camera that show tracks and trails, as well as landers.  What really impresses me is that the sharpness of the paths hasn’t changed much over the years since they were made. The simple explanation?  The Moon has no atmosphere, no wind, no rain, nothing to erode the paths. And so they remain, as evidence that people once walked these regolith-rich areas and explored another world.  When will we get to do it again?