The LROC was launched in June of 2009, and had been orbiting and photographing the Moon with its Narrow and Wide Angle Cameras ever since. Although it has usually held a near-circular orbit at an average altitude of 50km above the lunar surface, on August 10th NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center temporarily altered its orbit to a more oval configuration, that brought it as low as 21km. The result were the photos…that show the Apollo landing sites in greater detail than ever before.
Just for the nutballs who think we never went to the moon.
Those aren’t human trails. They’re clearly the work of Lunar ants!
Seriously, it’s got to be both weird and cool to know that your footsteps will far outlast your mortal remains by millions of years.
Assuming the lunar tourists don’t walk all over your footsteps, that is…
Why bother? Just like the truthers, birthers, and other assorted nuts, no amount of evidence will shake their preconceived answers.
It’s an altered image. We didn’t go to the moon. Silly lemmings.
The moon is a pristine place that should not be spoiled by human impact.
#4 – if we didn’t go to the moon, how did those big signs get written there?
“And over the left is the large area of disturbance where Armstrong twatted that Gray alien in the bollocks” – NWESSB*
*North West England Space Ship Blokes.
Well why couldn’t it be ‘Shopped?
Hmmm….
I keed, I keed.
In #4, MikeN said: The moon is a pristine place that should not be spoiled by human impact.
The best way to shut up these religious zealots and fundamentalists once and for all would be to put up a huge reflective (aluminized mylar balloons inflated to be readable from Earth, [they won't blow away in any breeze,]) multilingual ads for McDonalds™® and Tim Horton’s™®.
These would require no energy to operate (they’re reflective and the sun always shines on the moon.)
If they ran light pipes from the side not facing us to the other side which is perpetually facing us so the signs would glow in the lunar night it would be awesome.
The Japanese plan was too timid.
#2 Add belief in Keynesian stimulus to the list of nutball belief, given its complete failure the last few years….Obama, Progressives, Goonunions, statist of every ilk, join the list of nutballs.
The ‘faked moon-landing conspiracy theory’ is itself a conspiracy. Probably originally seeded by some wag working in counter-intelligence, but now endlessly parroted by the media and other useful idiots to discredit inquiry into real conspiracies. Repeated often enough you can get an almost pavlovian response when you tag a subject with the trigger phrase ‘conspiracy theory’. Any crime or deception can be swiftly sidestepped, ignored and ridiculed.
So, this picture and news briefing was released a week before when exactly?
Must be true, you can’t fake a photo.
Ok so where’s the Apollo 18 landing site?
#9
Alf does not want the US accomplish anything or recover from anything his only goal is to have the Right win the White House regardless of the cost to the nation.
instead of calling him Alf. or Tax Dude of any of his other silly aliases lets just refer to him as OT on every post he twists to his United Sates hating agenda. you should be Buzz Aldrin’ed
Yankinwaoz was talking about YOU
no amount of evidence will shake his preconceived ideas of how the world works.
OT
#1 Drive By Poster
“cool to know that your footsteps will far outlast your mortal remains”
I second that and would add those footprints are from all mankind
#8 Why Tim Horton’s? I don’t remember any canook being up in the moon.
In #14, pedro said: Why Tim Horton’s? I don’t remember any canuck being up in the moon.
Ok, how about if Apple puts up a night glow 500 square kilometer image of Steve Jobs.
That should drive Balmer and Microsoft’s accountant’s utterly insane trying to live their whole lives denying that there’s any direction but down…
# 11 Kent said, on September 10th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Must be true, you can’t fake a photo.
HAW-HAW-HAW
Have you never heard of Adobe Photoshop???
“Just for the nutballs who think we never went to the moon.”
Yea. Right. As if I would believe anything the gubernmt says. :p
I just looked at the moon out my window. I can’t see any of those giant arrows. So the photo is fake.
Well so say you. Here’s contradictory evidence.
http://jpronan1776.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=8ThMWjIBAAA.MCIOtkhOijEzJ8u_9W9qlA.wG8SIZ-CKfof3RnaLsqVjA&postId=2372906600145529977&type=POST. Check it out.
#15 mac is a Chinese company. Then again, Chinese are closer to the moon than canucks.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Tim Horton’s but still no canucks on da moon.