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TIL that the Apollo 11 landing site was chosen purely for technical and safety reasons, which is why the famous footage takes place on a mostly featureless plain. Later Apollo missions landed in valleys, next to canyons, and at the foot of mountains.
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[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kbhDTbfwE) is stabilized footage from the window of Apollo 15 landing next to the canyon Hadley Rille, a collapsed lunar lava tube. [A photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Apollo_15_Station_2_Rille%2C_Lunar_Rover%2C_Scott.jpg) from the edge of Hadley Rille after they drove over to it.