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Thursday, 15 September 2011

NASA: We really did go to the moon!
One of the things that has been bugging NASA ever since the moon landings is the sheer number of people that still believe they were faked.
A few more of the doubters were silenced this week, when new images of the Apollo landing sites were released. The image above shows the area of the moon covered in the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the last manned mission to the moon.
The pictures were taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The LRO usually flies in orbit between 35-65km above the moon’s surface. However, recently it was deliberately shifted into a lower orbit of around 22km above the surface. That’s about twice as high as a passenger plane flies.
All of the Apollo landing sites were surveyed in better detail than ever before, even though the LRO travels through space at 1,640m per second and has to use an exposure time for its camera of a third of a thousandth of a second.
Watch the below video to learn more about this picture and see more detail of the equipment that was left behind on the moon.
Image by NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
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emma88762 (Age 10) wrote on Sunday, 18 September 2011 @ 10:12
thats really silly of people to think that the moon landings were faked.
macfan (Age 12) wrote on Monday, 3 October 2011 @ 21:35
May i be an astornaut to go to mars, NASA
princessKG (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 2 November 2011 @ 11:56
cool