WASHINGTON (AP) — A NASA spaceship has taken the first-ever photos from space showing equipment left behind when man went to the moon.

The images released last Friday are from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was launched last month. They show the landing sites from Apollo 11, which landed 40 years ago on Monday, and four other Apollo missions.

On the Apollo 11 landing site, there's a fuzzy image near a crater. That is the Eagle lunar module, which took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon.

The images for Apollo 14 are the best so far. They show the tracks made by astronauts Alan Shepard Jr. and Edgar Mitchell.

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On the Net:

NASA's LRO site: http://www.nasa.gov/mission(underscore)pages/LRO/main/index.html

Camera-maker Arizona State's photo site: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/