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NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites

Posted by Unknown on from the looks-like-photoshop-to-me dept.

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.

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  1. Poor NASA server by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Wait by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

    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??

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  3. They still won't belive it. by arthurpaliden · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:It's a fake!!! by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.