On 20 July 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, watched live by hundreds of millions of people. The famous bootprint photo was taken by Buzz Aldrin, part of a test of how lunar dust behaves underfoot.
With no air, wind or water, there's almost nothing to wear those prints away. Only a slow rain of micrometeorites, which could take millions of years. Twelve people walked on the Moon. The last left in December 1972. Nobody has been back since.
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1:05 the volcano Krakatau 1883: the loudest sound in recorded history 
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0:59 the mould Penicillin: the mouldy dish that changed medicine 
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