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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.
That image is a hotlinked, bigass JPEG.
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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??
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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
If you magnify the image, you can see Stanley Kubrick sitting in a director's chair in a crater.
Oh wait. (rubbing my LCD screen) Dead pixels.
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.
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