These 17 panoramas and GIFs show the first moon landing in unbelievable detail

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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they did what any tourist would do — take hundreds of photos.

A few of these images are more famous than others, like the one of Aldrin with Armstrong reflected in his visor, and the one of Aldrin looking at the American flag.

But people at NASA and contributors to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal have painstakingly uploaded every single one of the photos from all six moon landings onto the Journal's website and Flickr page.

And what they've done that's really cool is figure out how some of them fit together to assemble larger photos, showing the lunar surface in unprecedented detail.

They even animated a few consecutive photos into GIFs, making you feel like you're on the Moon with Armstrong and Aldrin.

Here are 17 unbelievable constructed panoramas and GIFs from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.

In this animated GIF of photos of the Earth, it looks like our planet is rising just like the Moon does.

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Armstrong and Aldrin took these images out the window of their lander before they walked on the Moon.

It was important to have something to bring back in case they had to abort the mission.

Source: NASA