00:00The flag is fluttering in the wind. No, it's not fluttering. The Apollo flag had a horizontal
00:07crossbar so that it would look spread out in the first place, because there just isn't any wind.
00:12What you see in the videos are vibrations that happen when the astronauts twist the rod or drive
00:19the pole into the ground. In a vacuum there is no air to dampen this movement. That means the flag
00:27keeps waving longer than it would on earth. And that's exactly why it looks windy to us.
