Douglas Butler wrote:
>
> We have much better footage of a Klingon Warbird landing in a San
> Francisco park than any lunar landing... ;-)

That was so terribly fake. But then, I can't say that I really know how
Klingon propulsion systems work. Maybe there's a perfectly good reason
why the grass wasn't burnt to a crisp. :)

> But really, why would there be dust on the feet of the LEM?  If the
> thrusters kicked up dust on landing it would have to bounce off of
> something to get on top of the LEM feet.  Dust in a vacuum will travel
> in a balistic line, not "settle".

The engine that's blowing all the dust around is between the LM's legs.
So a lot of dust is being blown from the engine area outward past the
legs. The legs got in the way and collected some dust in the process.
You could also figure some dust bounced up off the bottom of the LM and
then onto the feet. A lot of dust apparently went upwards as all of the
pilots noted being engulfed in flying dust during the last few meters.
What goes up, must come down.

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