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All of NASA’s Apollo images are found by catalogue number - that no number was included in the original article indicates that the story is either a repost from somewhere else with such information edited out for brevity or is entirely false.

However, NASA’s catalogue includes images with the wrong numbers, numbered blank images, numerically missing images, and different images with the same number.

Some images show ‘scratch’ marks; these marks were made in the days prior to Photoshop where material was cut out of the negative and something else inserted.

All images were made with Hasselblad cameras using specially prepared film, so that the original is crystal clear - however, most of the existing images are copies of copies of copies by many generations, each generation losing some amount of detail.

Images posted on the web, whether from NASA or elsewhere, are heavily degraded, blurred by the specifications of the compression algorithm used (.jpeg, .tiff. etc).

Only the original film can create the true image captured. Only from that can a clear photograph be made. Most of the originals no longer exist.

Sadly, NASA in a fit of house cleaning 40-50 years ago threw out thousands of images to make physical room for more in their storage rooms.