Google's lunar effort is amusing, but the panorama's shot by Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 astronauts are the real thing.
Unless you believe the Google Ads chosen for the panorama site, that is.
You can hear Neil Armstrong's first unscripted words on the moon:
The surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
That echoes across 36 years clearly. I don't remember it well, being under 3 at the time, but my parents bought a TV set specially for the occasion.
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