credit: JAXA
If you are one of the sub-human fools who thinks that the Apollo Moon landings were faked then you're conspiracy believing days are numbered
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has posted pictures of what it calls the "halo" generated by the Apollo 15 lunar module engine exhaust plume when it blasted off the Moon. The blast area was detected in its SELenological and ENgineering Explorer(SELENE)/Kaguya orbiter's Terrain Camera images
JAXA describes the mission as its "first large lunar explorer", launched by the Mitsubishi H-IIA rocket on 14 September 2007 with the objectives of understanding the Moon's origins and evolution and characterising its mineral composition. JAXA also describes Kaguya/SELENE as "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo programme"
Is this the first post-Apollo imaging of those missions' effects on the lunar surface? It is certainly the first step to ending this Apollo conspiracy nonsense
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will be able to provide fuzzy images of the Apollo missions' descent stages and Lunar Rovers everyday for over a year once the spacecraft enters its mapping orbit. The LRO's launch is slated for end of February, early March 2009
The LRO'S camera, imaginatively given the acronym LROC, has, according to its Arizona State University based principal investigator Mark Robinson, a pixel resolution of 50cm (19in)
The Apollo descent stage is about 4.3m (14ft) across and the span from far-leg to far-leg is about 9m. So in terms of area it should provide a visibly brighter and clearly artificial geometric shape against the Moon's grey surface
And if Google Lunar X Prize manages to put a rover on the Moon by 2014, hopefully near an Apollo landing site, then close up images of the astronauts footsteps should end the conspiracy drivel once and for all
And before people start going on about preserving the landing sites, yes, I'd prefer it if that evidence can be imaged without disturbing the footprints and equipment
This video is about the Apollo 15 landing and ascent, oh yeah, and that experiment where a hammer and feather visibly fall at the same rate. Try 'faking' that on Earth, conspiracy believing idiots
on December 31, 2008 5:50 AM | Reply
haha what is your problem? why do you care about what others belive? and no, i'm not saying it's fake. also ^^ "Try 'faking' that on Earth" that's easy to fake.. dosn't prove mutch
on January 1, 2009 10:01 AM | Reply
You're right, what others believe is up to them. But with the Apollo conspiracies its just a very obvious example of the culture that exists in the West today that exalts stupidity and ignorance. The sooner those theories are exposed as totally false the better.
on March 20, 2009 1:27 AM | Reply
So mush for High Def .... Pretty rough pic for High Def
on May 4, 2009 5:55 AM | Reply
can i ask you question guys?
if the lunar left the base, then why the bast can not show clearly on the moon??!
hmmm. i need answer.
on July 9, 2009 4:18 PM | Reply
this is poor, all nasa have for proof is a shoddy picture of a "halo" that can be easily photoshopped in, because obviously nasa will want some say in the pictures before they reach us, wheres all the equipment mate? and the photos that were taken whilst the guys were on the moon showed NO STARS AT ALL...WTF? they would of been like car headlights because of the lack of atmosphere.
Most normal people back arguments up WITH SOLID FACTS AND EVIDENCE, a photoshopped picture that ISNT IN HIGH DEF, although it should be isnt what i or most people call evidence... if theres sufficient proof that there was actually a man on the moon then i wont bother finding any further faults
on July 20, 2009 7:59 AM | Reply
The author of this atrticle has no right to call anyone a sub human fool.
So, this super low res image aledgedly shows "the "halo" generated by the Apollo 15 lunar module".
Yet apollogists say that the landing modules engines were throttle down very low when landing and didn't disturb much dust.
on July 21, 2009 8:09 AM | Reply
I still don't see any moon buggies or any NASA equipment in these pictures!
If we went to the moon in 1969, we would be going there all the time not fooling around with a space shuttle that just barely makes it into orbit.
And how is this the beginning of the end? These pictures neither prove nor disprove anything.
The author seems so unusually hostile, strange.