Posted on 09/06/2011 12:39:28 PM PDT by ZGuy
The smaller size of the righthand image should have clued in anyone, but what the dishonest source of this comparison did was scale one or the other so that the scales nearly matched, meaning that each photo was taken from a different distance. Also, using this Mac shareware called GraphicConverter, when I clipped and dragged the righthand image over the left, the angle changed slightly, meaning that the photos were taken from different spots.
Since Apollo missions were launched to the Moon, and astronauts did land on and walk on the Moon, and return safely to Earth, laden with hundreds of pounds of samples from the lunar surface, it isn’t surprising that the artifacts and tracks those astronauts left behind are shown in these new LRO images.
Dang, I was hoping you’d keep that one to yourself. ;’)
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