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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
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"
the Apollo 18 landing site!
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
Yeah, then I think it's been 40 years and we've achieved precious little else except cargo trips to low earth orbit that blow up once in a while, and an "international space station" which no one ended up wanting to pay for, was plagued with delays and budget cuts, and despite being much more expensive has not really achieved much more than Skylab; and I get depressed. Oh and we put some toy robots on Mars.
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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.
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
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. ;-)
Remember, for a conspiracy theorist, evidence against a conspiracy is evidence for a conspiracy.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yeah, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Except roving around for kilometers on Mars.
But yeah, other than Mars Rovers... oh, and orbiting Saturn.
Yeah, but other than Mars rovers and orbiting Saturn... oh, and orbiting Mercury. And ongoing missions to interstellar space. And a mission to Pluto. And orbiting an asteroid. And private space travel. And starting work on manned trips to asteroids...
But yeah, other than that, what have the Romans ever done for us?
does it have to be "or"? Could very well be "and".
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
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.
Yeah, then I think it's been 40 years and we've achieved precious little else...
Correction: Since then, we've done a lot of important and useful work instead of wasting time on spectacular Cold War PR missions.
NASA has achieved a lot more every year since then than they did on the Apollo missions. Sorry if it wasn't sexy enough for you, but the real work rarely is...
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
Or we need to ignore and marginalize dumb-fucks who get all of their information from other dumb-fucks.
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!
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.
What 'things?' There's no requirement for NASA to spend tax dollars to placating morons.
Well, they do have to keep Congress happy.
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...
Kaguya did its thing, then they crashed it to avoid creating more space junk. It took some seriously cool pictures and movies.
...laura
There is only one answer of course...
GODZILLA!
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
But.. but...I LIKE reading Slashdot!
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
What you missed is the ability to live day in, day out, month in, month out (now 10 years) in .... space. You know, that hostile place where we will have to live for ....years.... when (if?) we get motivated to move out of LEO. Yes, I'd like sexier things, bigger targets, more expansive visions but you only get what you pay for.
We are much better at mundane station keeping than we were before the ISS. Hopefully we can put that knowledge to use before we forget it.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
That depends on what the humans in space achieve versus what the huge amounts of data are used for.
Contrary to popular belief, knowledge is not power. Application of knowledge is power. If we don't use our knowledge to put humans, and likely other life forms representative of Earth, to live permanently off-planet, then it's really no different than all of the various sea-faring cultures that supposedly discovered the American continents in the centuries before Columbus but didn't really do anything with that knowledge. Right now, we're on that cusp, in that we've gone somewhere, but rather than continuing to develop that ability to keep going, we've pulled back. Perhaps pulling back for a time is wise and warranted, as the entire method employed to go to the moon was very highly specialized for only that particular mission and would be terribly ill-suited to going farther, but at some point we need to take all of that data from the other planets, from how our probes move through the solar system, and we need to actually go out there in the flesh.
Maybe if we're smart we won't destroy what we find when we get there.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.