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NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites
sighted writes "Sharp new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites in amazing detail, including the last foot trails left by astronauts on the lunar surface."
These pictures were grabbed after the LRO dropped its orbit from 50km above the surface to 25km.
Senator Vreenak knows what's up.
They just won't let it go. ;-)
That image is a hotlinked, bigass JPEG.
A bunch of admins are probably running into the server room with fire extinguishers at this moment. And hopefully one with a Scottish accent is yelling over a cell phone that the server is overloaded and can't take any more.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I really thought I was gonna get Rick Roll'd when I clicked on the link.
FTA;
The images do not line up perfectly because of differences in lighting conditions, angle of the LRO Camera, and other variables.
Like being on a different sound stage??
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
There's no stars in the photos! Obiously they're fake and the moon landing was a hoax!
On a more serious note, I love these photos. I'm fascinated by the moon landings. Just looking up at the night sky and seeing the moon and thinking humans have set foot there, when a little over 100 years ago the idea of flight was only a dream.
the Apollo 18 landing site!
Some ugg boots, a remote sandy beach, and photoshop and I could do the same thing!
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
The 'never went to the moon' crowd will only believe it when the can see it with their own eyes. Which is fine by me. Take them there and let them look. Jjust remember no helmets now, the visors could be ultra high def curved monitors.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Will be mildly interesting to see how the moon hoax crowd deal with this, they'll largely ignore it I expect. Some of them might respond to this by diverging into slightly milder delusions, such as 'oh just the first one was faked' or something along those lines. Just another illustration of how unwilling people are to change their minds once they're emotionally invested in a particular view. It's a shame that this is the default mode of human thought, in my opinion schools should be doing more to teach about these default tendencies of the mind.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Just wondering...
What the hell do they need to use Flash to display images? What moron thought a simple picture file would be enhanced by embedding it within another piece of software?
Rule #2 of IT that should never be broken: Never let a web designer design your web page.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When our space program is reduced to trying to impress us all by looking 40 years in the past.
Let's just admire the new photos of humanities first forays to the Moon, and forget about the deniers. There is no point in the latter, because they will never be convinced. The thing that really matters is presenting ever better photos (i.e. evidence) as our technology improves so that future generations won't be tarnished by the cynicism and denial of conspiracy theorists.
Cernan and Schmitt were probably sweating this release out, thinking the image might reveal the ridiculous number of donuts they pulled in the moon buggy.
while [ 1 ]; do echo -n -e "\xe2\x95\xb$((($RANDOM&1)+1))"; done
Nice, nice, but I don't see any trace of the Apollo 18 landing...
{Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme}
The U.S. Congress is authorized by the Constitution to issue Letter of Marque and Reprisal. I say Congress should issue one to Buzz Aldrin and let him punch moon hoaxers in face. That includes some of the idiots posting around here, Jay and Silent Bob style tracking them down and ringing the doorbell on their Mom's house. ;-)
At last we have irrefutable proof that the Apollo landings weren't faked! Now my idiot brother-in-law will finally have to shut up.
Oh, wait, who released the photos? Never mind...
Circle the wagons and fire inward. Entropy increases without bounds.
I'm curious, are you trolling, or just a fucktard?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I was expecting to see the rovers up on blocks with the radio and wheels missing. And the Russian one all decked out...
So Aldrin goes back into the LM and the door accidentally locks behind him.
When Armstrong climbs up, he knocks on the door
Aldrin: Who is it?
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
does it have to be "or"? Could very well be "and".
I see a circle of rocks East South East of Intrepid Descent Stage and North of Surveyor Crater. Eight rocks in a circle with one in the middle like a large sun dial....
I guess that puts a lid on all those conspirators’ thinking the Lunar Mission was a fake!
-- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Glad they remembered not to generate the images for 13.
You notice they didn't release pics of the landing sites at the South pole!
jeeze, what a waste of effort on a crap horror movie. I feel dumb for even knowing that much about it...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
wow... I'd seen the older, older, pictures but they were so horribly blurry that somebody might as well have sneezed on the image. But seeing these, I'm impressed that the tracks are still quite so visible. In fact, I can't help but think that astronauts pretty much scarred the otherwise pristine (as impacted soil goes) surface. :)
Still better than a giant Pepsi logo, I suppose
Hopefully they'll get even higher resolution images at some point - I want to know where those golf balls landed.
Where is the RTG? I'm sure the future lunar colonists will want to be able to locate the RTG. If just to secure it. (FYI, this was part of the ALSEP experiment package)
-molo
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
How far they went over what kind of surfaces. Not all the that may have been determinable from the films and telemetry.
Way back in the late 90's, I postulated loudly right here on /. that there is really no difference between a troll and an idiot. One says stupid things to derail the conversation, advance an agenda, or get attention. The other one is just stupid. But you can never tell because they are hiding behind an electronic keyboard.
So the answer is, yes. He is. A trolling fucktard.
One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / the next it's rolling over me / I can get back on / I can get back on
...that we can see so clearly where we've been, but can't go there again.
Of all the things ever predicted by science-fiction writers, did any of them predict that after we'd gotten to the moon, we'd let grass grow on the Saturn launching pads?
"History records that the first successful voyage to the Moon was made in 2316 by Grzchopeng M'bennypacker. Some enthusiasts insist that unidentifiable metal fragments in the Taurus-Littrow valley are human artifacts, and are evidence that the United States reached the moon centuries earlier, but professional historians dismiss these as unproven speculation, and do not accept Frafnar Otsumix's alleged "decoding" of binary files alleged to be in what Otsumix calls "jpg" format. In any case, even if a handful of crude United States spacecraft somehow--by design or accident--managed reach the moon in the twentieth century, it is of no importance as nothing further came of it."
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
If FOX NEWS decided to take up this issue it wouldn't matter how much evidence you have or how many scientists agree.
FOX NEWS helped give credence to the conspiracy in the late 90s, almost like an experiment in how much they could do. I bet a sizable number of these people come from back in those days; just imagine how much harm they could cause if they continued putting such idiocy on their "news" channel... This was my thinking when I was introduced to the fake moon landings on Fox in the late 90s. We've been seeing that out on meaningful issues ever since.
Democracy Now! - uncensored, anti-establishment news
But can we find the golf balls that its commander Alan Shepard shot? He claims he drove one "miles and miles and miles." I have been calling that a hoax for years.
Glad I could help.
When I was younger I used to go to the bowling ally and play
the pin ball machines.
This night was one of the Moon walks, the front counter had a huge
T.V. set up on the counter so they could watch. The entire time I
was there I would take time out to watch them walk on the Moon.
Riding my bike back home I rode with the Moon directly in front of
me. It was a full Moon (pry the best time to land on it), and the
features were crystal clear. The man in the Moon clearly visible and
I thought !WoW! there are people walking on the Moon right now.
I look at these pictures now and think my god just how large were
their shoes anyways?
So where did this "Apollo 18" land?
We are just getting a historical documentry about Apollo 18 in the theatres, and they show us new pics of some older Apollo flights, but come on, let's see some Apollo 18 pics!
Be seeing you...
Anybody have any idea what happened to the Japanese orbiter that was also supposed to be taking good high resolution images of the moon?
Its amazing to see that nothing virtually has changed in forty years. I wonder what people will think when the surface will be criss-crossed with tracks of people and equipment.
We have folks who want go back, some want build to build some kind of business and so forth. What happens when they do? vigin terrority up there will be ever changing criss-crossing mess. I wonder if the moon will appears could change from so much activity up there.
Just like humans, leaving a load of crap behind to mark their territory. Now who's going to clean this up?
There is only one answer of course...
GODZILLA!
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
If only GW would have spend a fraction of what became the Iraq war on an other moon or even Mars mission the US would have been admired by youth the world over, including the Muslim world.
News flash, the few violent muslims that hate us would not hate us any less had we spent a ton of money to try to go to Mars.
They would have tried to blow up the mars craft though, and with full operational strength unimpeded by being beaten down in the middle east and most leaders killed, they might have even succeeded.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I can go on google MAPS, not google EARTH bu google MAPS and see my pickup truck in my driveway and see the ties down straps I have in the bed of it and this is the fucking best they can do from 25 god kilometers up??
Hey KID! Yeah you, get the fuck off my lawn!
These are clearly fakes. Bart Sibrel, please alert Buzz Aldrin. Again.
When they can find that golf ball, then you can color me impressed.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
They'll pull something clever out of their asses to keep from going down. Maybe they'll power up the lunar module's computer to handle the extra load, or they'll insert a pen into their router's fuse holder.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Wonder if anyone has found these sites in moonzoo?
I feel worse knowing that you would rather ask about some unstudied fiscally responsible person to comment on being forced to spend their's and other's money on someone else's side project of visitting The Moon(sm) rather than perpetuating cultures with farming equipment so the Humanitarian Aid doesn't become a strain on the cultures forced to donate.
There are so many better things to have done with that kind of money back in those days, and remember back then was when $10 was equivalent of $100 in today's purchasing power.
Were you visitting a retirement home to talk to these nay-sayers as they are getting drugged to remove the pain of illnesses that could've been remedied already if they had full attention that NASSA stole? Remember that Ronald Reagon followed the spending-sprees of The Moon(tm) by so-called "bankrupting" Russia through competitive investments and fore-most allowing the export of XEROX Corporation to China where was the primary nails in the coffin of trade imbalance and US Debt that is bearing it's vile fruits of today.
There is nothing of benefit from landing on the The Moon(sm) because it only spread YOUR problems onto another PLANET. Why? Why? That was the swivel of the Debt Door and it's locked you and others in, and you want to argue with some old 50+ individuals about whether you landed on The Moon(sm) was remotely beneficial if not to invent zero-gravity ink pens?
FUCK. YOU.
I should say, we marred the surface. It was perfect and untouched, in my mind, prior to that. Sure, I'd seem the tracks behind the rovers in the films. But that wasn't seeing them from above. So why does it bother me now? I'm grateful for every probe we've sent out, whether it's left tracks on the Moon, on Mars, or even Venus. Though we probably wouldn't see it so much on Venus now.
-- haaz.
NASA simply upgraded its Photoshop version.
I am kind of like you in this regard. I never watched a Baseball Game in real-life or on TV, and like Pokemon Cards I collected Baseball Cards just because everyone else did and if I didn't then I would be looked upon as boring and stupid. The same happened with Pog milk-caps.
What I noticed is the moon landing Mission Control footage is just like Baseball Cards: some players are posing with a Bat but they aren't at the game. Others are photographs in Practice batting at a pitching machine. To me, that's what NASA is unable to prove: they are losing the debate because they are showing posers practicing in low Earth orbit, not at the actual game on the moon, but they still sell expensive photographs that we didn't get at random in cheap foil packages: we were forced to pay as though we are collectors.
I never was brainwashed enough to stand in lines for 10 hours to get an Autograph. Ted Williams wrote books on the Art of Batting, and so does NASA. I never benefitted from either of them, but NASA forced me and others to pay.
In an economy that was bankrupted by this kind of frivolous spending, where actual charities are floundering to export food instead of farm equipment to 3rd-world countries while the price of food domestically soars, NASA supposedly went to the moon at an era where if done today our $100 bill is needed where NASA used $10 of equivalent buying power. I even have certified receipts for how much I payed for a pack of random Baseball pack cards to get a so-called "rare" and "collectable" pricey Player posing not at a game but doing something non-Baseball like standing somewhere out in a green pasture. My receipts for those prized cards are measured in the Cent ranges under a dollar, yet NASA receipts show hundreds of millions of dollars going to PRIVATE COMPANIES that didn't even contribute any ledgible research or product to assist in "landing" on the moon.
NASA is failing this debate hard, because even if they did go to the moon it's just the simple fact that they did it with so-much fraud that they can't show the actual moon landing pictures because something else was going on. Call it aliens, call it whatever you want: they possibly went to the moon, but they can't show it. Maybe it's because the original photographs has too much to air-brush out due to someone else already landing there, but I don't speculate because there are actual Mission Control conversations scripts one of which is 3 pages or so of the astronaughts admiring structres and supposed aircraft.
Whether the moon landing happened on TV or on the moon: I was forced to pay for it, and nobody benefitted from it in terms of recurring trips or whatnot.
Sorry, I gotta get some glasses. But that's how I first read the summary, I couldn't figure out how Neil Armstrong smuggled McDonalds fries in to the lunar capsule and then managed to eat them while strolling on the moon.
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
Did they see any zombie foot prints?
Oh Goodie! Lunar archeology from 68,000 feet. We get to look at some footprints and smudges from nearly 50 years ago, back when the U.S. still had balls and wasn't afraid to use 'em.
Not everyone in the 1970s would have laughed at the notion that it would take a long time from the first explorers to a permanent base. Some of us remembered that it took 50 years from the first explorers reaching the south pole to the establishment of the permanent base there.
I still believe it is possible that there will be a base on the moon by 2019, but I am not so sure that Americans will participate in it.
Like what happens at the voting booth, does the winner count his own votes?
Do you rely on the accuracy on the political summary of a candidate that was pre-typed by the Registrar?
To who's satisfaction are we to be assured that money is well spent?
I hear there was a recent Research Study by Researchers, that concluded more money to Research Projects would yield more effective Results.
> Moon denial is a very minority position, like 9/11 truther
Only WASP (white anglo-saxon protestant) men believe the Moon Landings, because only wasp and jews claimed to have been on the Moon. Negros, redskins, hispanics, asians and female-kind, all of them significant parts of the USA population even in the 1960s-1970s, have been excluded from spaceflight on racial and gender discrimination basis. WASP and jews have no moral ground to expect the coloureds and ladies shall believe in the factuality of manned moon landings by NASA.
In fact, the most important aim of any future manned Moon or Mars landing should be to make sure that all human races, colours and genders get to participate on-site!
The astronauts paths are still there after 42 years... But it's kind of normal as there is no atmosphere.
I read a lot about the lunar landing but not much about how they cam back. What was the launching vehicle like? Rockets leaving earth look huge. Ones leaving moon may probably be 6 times smaller. That's still big. Landing vehicle has that much fuel? Must have been risky landing in such fuel laden craft.
Can somebody explain why should I believe the moon landing story and this photo that anybody could make in photoshop? Because NASA and your mama said so?
You are just a bunch of pathetic people who believe anything they are told.
I am sorry but a healthy dose of skepticism is needed here - and in both crowds, the believers and the deniers.
It is sad to see people who just know - is it just me who says: I don't know - ?
We all know it was made in a Hollywood basement. (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
We used to be able to go TO the moon. Now we can just take pictures of our old footprints there.
I can't tell is NASA is actually proud of this new capability or if this is a sarcastic stunt to get more funding.