NASA's LRO Gets First Close-up Look at Apollo Landing Sites
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) descent stages, from five of the six Apollo sites, sitting on the moon's surface as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident. The LRO will eventually be able to resolve more remnants of the Apollo missions, however, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LRO images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.
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Interesting that the foot paths from apollo 14 are quite clear but on the photos of the later missions with the lunar rover, no tracks are seen. I was really hoping to be able to see the rover also. Oh well maybe in later shots it will show up.
I have one of those neighbours that believe the moon landings are hoey. Well he is a pretty good old farm boy(hard working)and a decent fellow that would risk life and limb to help out when one is in trouble.I'm printing this out just for him because I feel sorry for those individuals that are left lying to themselves.God bless our astronauts because they sure risked they're all for all of us!!!<br><br>So goood to see<br><br>Rob
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