Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured Apollo 12,14 and 17 landing sites
Yes, we've been to the Moon and there is no other way to disprove it. The last photos shot by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are a final blow to conspiracy theorists: these pictures clearly shows the landing sites of three of the six Apollo space missions which landed on the Moon from 1969 to 1972, during the "Space Race" between United States and U.R.S.S.
What is the LRO, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter?
It's an orbiter launched in 2009, specifically built to study the Moon under this research areas:
- ground topography,
- possible water ice existence in the polar regions,
- study of deep space radiation close to the surface
- high resolution mapping of the surface (with a maximum of 50 cm!) for possible future landings.
Credit: NASA
In particular this last research has allowed to obtain photos as never before, through an extremely defined quality due to high resolution. In 2011 NASA lowered the LRO orbit from 50km till only 21km: its excellent cameras allowed to show old equipment left by Apollo Mission with impressive details, as astronauts footprints, moon buggies (electric car used to move on the surface) and the scientific instruments used for experiments.
Here the comparison between LRO and old images https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html
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