Posted on 09/08/2011 12:32:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: This view of the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow valley was captured last month by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the sharpest ever recorded from space. The high resolution image data was taken during a period when LRO's orbit was modified to create a close approach of about 22 kilometers as it passed over some of the Apollo landing sites. That altitude corresponds to only about twice the height of a commercial airline flight over planet Earth. Labeled in this image are Apollo 17 lunar lander Challenger's descent stage (inset), the lunar rover (LRV) at its final parking spot, and the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) left to monitor the Moon's environment and interior. Clear, dual lunar rover tracks and the foot trails left by astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, the last to walk on the lunar surface, are also easily visible at the Apollo 17 site.
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[Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter]
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Gee, that moon landing hoax thing was pretty complicated to pull off. Not as hard as pulling off 9/11 though.
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I remember as a child watching the landings on an old black and white console. Rounded tube and all. The resolution was so bad it took several lunar landings for me to figure out those impressions were concave not small mountains. Yes, I was pretty young ;). What an exciting time to be a kid.
I was a Senior in college. It was an exciting time to be an adult, too!
They’re just reiterating their proof that we really did go to the moon. It’s worth repeating to rebut the mozlem denial that “men walked on the moon” because of their cultish superstitious nonsense.
Exciting times for all indeed!
There is a launch this morning. Go here.
I was 29 years old, a senior in law school, married with a two-year-old son. And yes, it was exciting to an adult as well as to a school kid.
I was 40 years old and we got out 5 year old daughter out of bed to watch it. She really did not seem that thrilled although her silly daddy was telling her that she was watching history in the making and that she would be able to tell her grand children in after-times that she saw the first landing on the moon.
She remembers the time but not much about the fuzzy b/w pictures.
I always thought that the Lunar Rover was parked more in line with the center of the Lunar Module. Seeing it in the pic, it’s off to the left of the LM’s centerline. Still, the video if Challenger’s liftoff was great. Ed Fendell managed to follow her up to pitch over and a little bit of its flight downrange. Great work given the time delay in sending the commands to the camera and getting it to respond to a moving object.
Still, that’s a remarkable photo. I hope a later orbiter will carry a much better camera to get even better high res photos of the six landing sites. And in color. That would be so neat. The pic of Apollo 12’s landing site is equally good.
if Challenger’s = of Challenger’s. OOOOOPs!
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