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But this one is different. The photo was taken by NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin while on the surface of the moon, not long after the Apollo 11 mission landed on the lunar surface for the first time.

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

The only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon, taken by Buzz Aldrin, and other historic space photographs are headed to ...

while Aldrin captured the photo of the space boot imprint on the moon — as part of a study of the nature of the soil on its surface. How long did it take Apollo 11 to reach the moon and when did ...

Scientists had an interest in this area of the moon as a possible landing zone for a future human landing, and indeed Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of the Ranger 8 impact site in July 1969.

One small step': A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon.