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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.

  5. How sad is this by sunking2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When our space program is reduced to trying to impress us all by looking 40 years in the past.

    1. Re:How sad is this by Beelzebud · · Score: 5, Insightful

      About as sad as the fact that a sizable chunk of the population needs proof, because they're too fucking idiotic to appreciate one of the biggest accomplishments of our civilization. If you had told people in the 1970's that this is how it would turn out, they would have laughed you out of the room.

  6. How poignant and sad... by dpbsmith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...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."

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