[Rennes Templar]

I find it interesting to note that with all the moon dust shown from photos, the descent engine made no crater nor spewed dust pattern underneath the lunar lander. I can only surmise it was shut off and they dropped for a good distance.

[UnChained]

“I find it interesting to note that with all the moon dust shown from photos, the descent engine made no crater nor spewed dust pattern underneath the lunar lander. I can only surmise it was shut off and they dropped for a good distance”

The moon’s atmosphere is a really hard vacuum. Their is no ambient air to stir up and create wind. Once the nozzle exhaust hits the ground and bounces, it would head straight for the sky becoming instant;y rarefied.

There was a crater. It was 1/4 inch deep because that is how deep the dust is on top of the solid rock of the lunar surface.

[mvpel]

I find it interesting to note that with all the moon dust shown from photos, the descent engine made no crater nor spewed dust pattern underneath the lunar lander. I can only surmise it was shut off and they dropped for a good distance.

Remember how they said "Contact light" just before the landing? This light was activated by the 1.5-meter probes on the landing feet shown below, signaling them to shut off the descent motor.