The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them

The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them

The bootprints that Apollo astronauts pressed into the lunar dust between 1969 and 1972 are still there, and they will stay for a very long time. By common estimates they should survive on the order of millions of years, quite plausibly ten million or more, because there is no wind, no rain, no flowing water, and almost nothing else on the Moon to wipe them away. It is worth being precise about that, because the popular version of the claim, tha…