Astronauts' tracks, trash seen in new moon photos - VIDEO

Dante · Sep 6, 2011

http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2278950

Posted 9/6/11 2:22 p.m.WASHINGTON (WLS) - A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972.
Images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 13 to 15 miles up show the astronauts' paths when they walked on the moon, as well as ruts left by a moon buggy. Experts could even identify the backpacks astronauts pitched out of their lunar landers before they returned to Earth.
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"What we're seeing is a trail," said Arizona State University geology professor Mark Robinson, the orbiter's chief scientist. "It's totally awesome."

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so does this bunk the theory of some of the nuts that say we never went to the moon and it was all staged in the desert somewhere?

ALSportsJunkie · Sep 6, 2011

I think we did go...but I can't tell anything from those photos.

Dante · Sep 6, 2011

ALSportsJunkie said:
I think we did go...but I can't tell anything from those photos.

well the video shows the lunar site you can see the lunar lander

VegasVic · Sep 6, 2011

you'd think in this age of HD, high resolution optics, and a telescope, (Hubbel), that can view objects thousands of light years away they'd be able to produce sharper images from a distance of 13 miles.

wolfie_cr · Sep 6, 2011

VegasVic said:
you'd think in this age of HD, high resolution optics, and a telescope, (Hubbel), that can view objects thousands of light years away they'd be able to produce sharper images from a distance of 13 miles.

those 13 miles happen to be in a place 239000 miles away from here.....you would think you can figure out that it takes a "tiny bit" of energy to send the instrument there and considering NASA's always decreasing budget.....I consider it a miracle some idiot didnt think that cancelling this mission would help with the US debt crisis (NASA's budget is always a drop in the bucket compared to military spending)