And now, see what it was like to drive on the Moon

When it comes to coolheaded route trips and awesome driving exploits , Apollo astronauts David Scott , John Young , and Eugene Cernan pretty much have us all beat everlastingly , seeing as how they drove on the Moon and all . At least the video up top give way some melodic theme of what it was like to tool around the Moon .

The inadequate version is that lunar driving is silent , wasteland , and utterly beyond incredible . The video recording up top was recored by Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke , the second Apollo crew to get to use the Lunar Rover , although only Young as mission air force officer got to in reality drive the thing . The first half of the video was taken by a stationary Duke as Young drove past , providing the more familiar image of the lunar rover in natural process at close quarter .

But it ’s the second half of the video that ’s really spectacular , as the camera is identify properly at the front of the lunar rover and shows the lunar landscape painting fly past — insofar as anything can take flight past at a maximum speed of approximately 10 miles per hour — just as Young and Duke would have seen it 41 year ago and 238,000 mile aside . For more , check outNASA ’s Astronomy Photo of the Day website .