Hold the first Moon rock ever collected with your smartphone
NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in a variety of ways today, but here's one you can experience no matter where you are, provided you have a modern smartphone. NASA's Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science (ARES) department has released a fully detailed model of the first ever sample of lunar soil and rock, bagged by Astronaut Neil Armstrong during humanity's first-ever trip to the Moon's surface. The rock is fully manipulable provided you visit this link on a smartphone with the capability to display interactive 3D field on the web, so you can twist and turn it using touch to get a better look.