New NASA images of Moon Landing Sites Reveal Footprint Trail

A US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon, revealing hardware and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface in time for the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

The descent stages from the lunar modules which carried astronauts to and from the Moon can clearly be seen The image of the Apollo 14 landing site shows scientific instruments and an astronaut footpath in the lunar dust.

It is the first time hardware left on the Moon by the Apollo missions has been seen from lunar orbit.The pictures were taken by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, which launched on 18 June.

"The LROC team anxiously awaited each image," said the instrument's principal investigator Mark Robinson of Arizona State University. The camera instrument was able to capture five of the six Apollo sites, with the remaining Apollo 12 site expected to be photographed in the coming weeks. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.

The image of the Apollo 14 landing site had a particularly desirable lighting condition that revealed additional details.

The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package, a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site, is discernable, as are the faint trails between the module and instrument package left by the astronauts' footprints.

The LRO satellite reached lunar orbit on 23 June and captured the Apollo sites between 11 and 15 July.

Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo missions, these first images were taken before the spacecraft had reached its final mapping orbit. The LRO will be used to identify the best destinations for the next journeys to the Moon.

Data returned by the mission will help Nasa identify safe landing sites for future explorers, locate potential resources, describe the Moon's radiation environment and demonstrate new technologies.

Posted by Casey Kazan.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

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[Paul]

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[fdisk]

we were never at the moon. Nasa shot rockets with feet on the tip at the moon to make those impressions. they then vaporized upon contact. that's the ticket. in other news, 6% of the population is retarded....

[pikestaff]

Considering how good to-days lenses and cameras are, those photos are crap, what is NASA hiding?

[NASA Staff]

pikestaff, you are such a fuckin prick

[Jim Beaner]

Well that should pretty much remove all doubt that the trip to the moon was in fact REAL.

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[Jonathan]

"Considering how good to-days lenses and cameras are, those photos are crap, what is NASA hiding?"

What are you, an idiot? Are you one of these people who would say something as ignorant as "Why don't they point the hubble at the moon and take a picture?" Well, I'll tell you why. There are a few reasons.

1. Ever try looking at the sun in the day? Yeah, can't see much detail because it's blinding. Well, hubble would be blinded to the point where it would actually fry the input systems where the light comes in.

2. Ever try to take a picture of something super close to a camera lens? It comes out blurry. The typical result of this is something people like to call "orbs", if they're ghost enthusiasts. It's dust that's really close to the camera lens. Hubble is designed to take pictures of the distant universe and galaxies. Trying to take a picture of the moon would be like my practically holding a camera 1mm away from someones face and expecting to see their hair follicles.

Moon landing conspiracy theorists crack me up. There is such a bulk of evidence to prove that people have been on the moon numerous times. I'm convinced that anyone who wants to believe otherwise, in the face of empirical evidence just wants to be deceived in to their own fantasy world where they have all the answers and aren't wrong.

[joe]

Jim Beaner that was a dumb argument. Ever hear of aperture and shutter speed? They are adjustable to take pictures of bright, shiny stuff. You know, like the moon! And yes I've taken pictures of things "super close up". It's done with a macro lens. I'm sure the Hubble has one or two on board. Right next to the Skylight filters.

No ones ever been to the moon except for Bugs Bunny!

[joe]

Sorry Jim, I meant Jonathan! This forum is a peace of crap.

[Randy]

Wow the ignorance amazes me. If the whole point of the hubble telescope was to take long range photographs, why would they put a macro lens on it?!?!
I've given up. Conspiracy theorists will never be happy. You could send one of those neanderthals to the moon and show him yourself and they would still deny it. Its not that it didn't happen to them, its that they refuse to believe it did, and nothing will change their mind. So whatever evidence you put in front of them, they will come up with another scientifically unsound story to explain why its fake.

[Mike]

People seem to forget (or ignore) the fact that one of the missions to the moon was to install mirrors - something that you couldn't put there with rockets - to be able to measure and gather data using "LASERS". With these "LASERS" (where are the sharks?) bouncing off mirrors that were installed by people, we have measured how fast, and how far the moon moves away from the Earth each year. these were not something you can just shoot at the giant ball in the sky and expect it to stick, with correct orientation and site...

[Emily Cragg, B.S., M.A., webmaster]

You mean to stand there telling us all: you don't see the human figures in the image you have provided us? Aw, come on! The tracks have been obliterated by forty years of foot traffic, probably Don't you ever look at your OWN data with your eyes open?
http://www.holyconservancy.org/images/MOON/strip/LCROSSLIM03.png

[johnny5]

These blurry photos explain everything!

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[Television Spy]

Could easily be craters but I'd like to believe it's footprints (zoom in closer and you'll see a nike checkmark ;) )

[moonlooneytoon]

hey jonathan, stop the craps coming from your mouth. You are full of sh i t.

[Jonathan Ainsley Bain]

google :
Do things on the moon move at 1/2 or 1/6th that of earth?

go to the first link.

[rollocks]

theres no moon thats a Conspiracy to get us to eat cheese a product not suitable for the human stomach.