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Chandrayaan Maps Apollo Missions

Posted by timothy on from the ilm-took-care-of-the-backstory dept.

maheshc writes "Chandrayaan has mapped 6 Apollo landing sites on the Moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17). More at the Times of India. Perhaps time to retire all the conspiracy theories ..."

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  1. Mod Parent up -- Good catch! by ObiWonKanblomi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apollo 11, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
    Apollo 12, 1969, Charles (Pete) Conrad, , Alan Bean, Richard Francis Gordon
    Apollo 14, 1971, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa
    Apollo 15, 1971, David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden
    Apollo 16, 1972, John Young, Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly
    Apollo 17, 1972, Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans

  2. Its all about the resolution by DerekLyons · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chandrayaan's camera only has a resolution of 5M - a LEM descent stage barely fills a pixel. One more anonymous dot among many, neither ammunition for or against conspiracy nutters.

    Anyhow, if you bother to read TFA you'll find they had a much more prosaic purpose - to compare the readings from their instruments to the known regolith and rock at the landing sites in order to check their calibration.