LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites

[brillbilly]

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, was able to image five of the six Apollo sites, with the remaining Apollo 12 site expected to be photographed in the coming weeks.

The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.


All images credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
Apollo 11 lunar module, Eagle.
Image width: 282 meters (about 925 ft.)
Apollo 15 lunar module, Falcon.
Image width: 384 meters (about 1,260 ft.)
Apollo 16 lunar module, Orion.
Image width: 256 meters (about 840 ft.)
Apollo 17 lunar module, Challenger.
Image width: 359 meters (about 1,178 ft.)
Apollo 14 lunar module, Antares.
Image width: 538 meters (about 1,765 ft.)

[Aardvaaks]

Nice post dad, you know theres so much conjecture on the moon landings, were they prior to 1969 ?1964 or was it post 69?
Did the landings happen at all, did this fact get implied in the moonraker bond film by the way made in 1979?

[brillbilly]

;D so this is the best photo money can buy,this picture is rubbish lol