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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.
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.
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
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.
When our space program is reduced to trying to impress us all by looking 40 years in the past.
/dev/null is the best place for it.
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.
If you go around the South Pole of the moon, you will see a giant excavation. That is where the all copies of the movie, DVD as well as the writer and director of Apollo 18 will be buried to make sure no one has to go through the burden of ever thinking about that movie ever again. Think of it as Atari ET on a larger scale.
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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 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.
Of course it's fake. You think any reasonable person would park so far away and schlep all the way back to the ship in those damn suits?
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
they would if they ran out of gas for the rovers. I bet they were pissed too when AAA wouldn't drop them off a gallon.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
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
You forgot to right click and select "Zoom-In" and then choose "Enhance".
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Dead pixels or dead director?
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
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
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How far they went over what kind of surfaces. Not all the that may have been determinable from the films and telemetry.
I know you're joking, but for those that don't remember, the rover was parked a fair distance away so that its TV camera could film the LM lifting off from the surface.
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.
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There's no air on the moon, of course he's dead (no woosh required).
Seriously, this will do *nothing* for the nutters that honestly don't think we've been to the moon.
-nB
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...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.
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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.
Well, I'm glad there's no whoosh required, because without air there wouldn't be any.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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?
I'm sorry to have to shatter your reality, but Apollo 18 was not documentary... That they are calling it one is nothing more than a means that the creators are using to hype their movie.
It is about as factual as Star Wars.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
It's a soundstage on Mars
how long until
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.
I'm sure Hollywood has taken some license with the story, but I don't think it's fair to call it pure fiction. The actual Apollo 18 moon landing is just as real as any of the other moon missions, they were all filmed on the same soundstage in Studio City...
Hold on, what's Buzz Aldrin doing here? Buzz, why? ... NOT IN THE FACE ... Oh the humanity...
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"
On the way to work this morning I heard on the radio someone say that he really liked Apollo 18 as a horror film, but the only thing wrong with it is that wayyyy too many people are going to believe the footage is authentic.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
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.
Seriously, this will do *nothing* for the nutters that honestly don't think we've been to the moon.
Probably not. Pictures of the (mostly) spherical Earth from space, or looking at a ship over the horizon, have yet to convince the Flat Earthers (yes, they are real) that we live on an oblate spheroid. DNA evidence of our similarity to other primates has yet to convince the creationists that evolution is a valid theory.
Anti-science is like a religious belief (and in some cases has religious origins). It uses the emotional part of the brain, not the logical part, so logical arguments are useless in defeating it.
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.
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Wonder if anyone has found these sites in moonzoo?
... ah yes, the flat earth theorists. The exception to my general policy on eugenic sterilization.
"People don't want to learn linux" hasn't been a valid excuse since '03.
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.
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.
Seriously, I'm amazed at how many technically literate people out there haven't yet figured out the whole moon landing hoax.
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.
I ain't falling for that... Its no moon surface. Its the magnified image of Amoeba. You want me to see moon landing sites on the surface of an amoeba? I ain't no dumb a$$.
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.
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.
Most classics from that time have already been digitally remastered. Why exclude this Disney classic?
It was at Disney studios, right?
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