Between July 11 and 15, the spacecraft, still not at peak resolution, photographed 5 of the 6 landing sites
The Lunar Rover (LRO) recently transmitted images of the Apollo spacecraft landing sites. The image shows the landing vehicles lying on the surface of the moon, as well as long shadows of the low sun that make it possible to identify the location of the vehicles. LRO was able to photograph five of the six landing sites. The Apollo 12 landing site is expected to be photographed in the coming weeks.
The LROC (LRO camera) team anxiously awaited each of the images, said the instrument's principal investigator, Mark Robinson of the University of Arizona. "We were interested in getting the first pictures of the Apollo landing stages, just for the thrill - and as we see how well the camera was able to focus. Indeed, the pictures are fantastic.
LRO, which is actually a satellite of the moon, entered orbit around it on June 23 and photographed the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Although it was expected that LRO would be able to locate the remnants of the Apollo missions, the first images were obtained even before the spacecraft reached the mapping orbit. Additional images of these sites in the hands of LROC will have 2-3 times higher resolution than the current images.
Although the images provide a reminder of NASA's past missions, LRO's primary mission will be to pave the way for the future. By transmitting detailed data on the lunar surface, the mission will help NASA identify safe landing sites for future astronauts, locate potential resources, describe the lunar radiation environment and demonstrate new technologies.
"Not only do these images capture the great achievements of Apollo, they also show us that lunar exploration will continue," says LRO Chief Scientist Richard Wondrack of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. "They demonstrate how LRO will be used to identify the best targets for future missions to the Moon."
The current elliptical orbit of the spacecraft is expressed in the resolution of the images, which is different from site to site, but on average it spanned around 1.2 m per pixel. Since the diameter of the landing stage is about 3.5 m these landings fill an area of about 9 pixels. However, since the sun was low above the horizon when the photos were taken, even subtle variations in the topography create long shadows. The height of the landing stages is over 3 meters, so every such Apollo stage creates a shadow that fills about 20 pixels.
The image of the landing site of the Apollo 14 spacecraft had excellent lighting conditions that would allow viewing more details. For example, the Apollo ground experiment package - a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site is distinguishable, and pale traces are also visible between the landing compartment and the instrument package left by the astronauts' footprints.
The LRO spacecraft was launched on June 18 and is carrying seven scientific instruments, all of which are currently undergoing calibration and testing before the spacecraft reaches the primary mission orbit. The LROC device actually consists of three cameras - two of them are high-resolution narrow-angle cameras and one is low-resolution and wide-angle. LRO will navigate to its primary orbit in August, an almost circular orbit at an altitude of about 50 km above the surface of the Moon.
For information on the NASA website
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N.C
It seems that you are the idiot who believes that the world was created out of nothing and that the mystical order of the universe was created by itself.
Where there is order there is order. The whole thesis of science is based on unfounded theories. To hear these scholarly explanations and not to believe.
A said to B and C said to D and C said to L http://youtu.be/r2rKycTp4wA
Yoav:
Go for treatment.
urgent!
To all the idiots who believe in NASA instead of God…..
Haven't you realized yet that the only way to keep citizens under control in a form of free capitalist democracy is only by "selling lies" to the innocent citizens of the nation?
And those who didn't understand what Karl Marx talked about in his book about the line that differentiates the two layers will understand that this line is this information mortar made of barbed wire of lies and lies... and they say to themselves that this is information mortar intended for the enemies of the state - it's a shame that the citizens also "eat" this lie...
Anyone willing to tell me why they landed on the moon for 3 years from 69 to 72 and since then no one is interested in the moon?
I think that this conspiracy is the mother of all conspiracies of the last century and all kinds of sub-conspiracies related to it and even maybe the Kennedy assassination - who knows?
In any case, we have reached a disgusting and sickening situation as far as I'm concerned, where a simple, ordinary, average citizen cannot know what is true and what is false...
Does anyone want to tell me how video and sound signals are transmitted from Mars to Earth?
Does anyone want to calculate the time for the signals to reach Israel and return to Mars?
It took me something like half an hour at the speed of light in each direction.
Does anyone want to tell me how to activate a robot in real time when the signals arrive after half an hour?
And are optical signals used? or radio?
A lie doesn't have long legs... and if it's a lie it will be revealed sooner or later... let's hope it's sooner...
agrees with the opinion of N.C
To Moses 11, your claims are about as serious as the claims of some religious idiot who occasionally appears here
and claims that the world was created about 5700 years ago and that everything written on this site is nonsense.
There is a saying that "brriers don't die, they just change". This also applies to the weak and the weak.
Moshe,
It amazes me every time how easily people buy the conspiracy stories. There is apparently some deep psychological reason for the conspiracies under every ordinary stone.
Who "sold" you the story that NASA censors 80% of the pictures taken on Mars?
What do you think is her interest in doing so (just don't tell about alien activity there...)?
There is actually no contradiction with the conspiracy theory.
It is likely that there were moon landings, and it is likely that there were many more than reported. The conspiracy only claims that the Apollo videos that were broadcast on television were filmed in a studio on Earth.
For example (one example out of many) - Buzz's famous run on the moon - if projected at double speed (x2) it looks completely normal, meaning it was filmed on Earth. Do a simple "slow motion"!
*Remind you* NASA censors about 80% of the photos taken on Mars. And for those it releases - the images undergo "color correction" so that the sky of Mars looks red (it is blue, like on Earth).
They have something to hide!! "There's nothing in it anymore"
Shit you are all complicit in the moon conspiracy. These Americans also planted people in Israel!!
Don't worry the Indians are on their way there.
With me it's 20 pixels of the whole object including the long shadow it casts
The whole object is 9 pixels which leaves us with a resolution of about 40 centimeters per pixel. Which is not bad but not a bargain either
See the following site (may have been taken from airplanes)
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/03/super_high_resolutio.html
In any case, those who do not doubt, are walking blind.
I like to doubt in order to get more clues and understand more things from as many angles as possible
I hope that one day we will see the landing area more closely, but even then you will know if the Americans don't fabricate it....
Just correcting a mistake (I'm also wrong sometimes) - there are satellites that fall below the 20 cm limit and the physical limit is lower and also depends on the altitude. A satellite will be able to reach a resolution of about 5 cm at most (in my understanding this is also true for an airplane at a high altitude so it is also true to the lowest satellite).
I wondered when someone would say that this was also fabricated.
You need to remember a few things -
1. LRO is not yet in orbit. When it reaches runway height (about 50 kilometers. It's really low for a Levin) the pictures will be better.
2. Images from the best satellite on Earth have a resolution of the order of 20 cm per pixel, which is the physical limit also caused by all kinds of things (e.g. atmosphere). It is possible that in a place without an atmosphere like the moon there will be better images and there will be a motivation to develop better cameras In any case, 20 pixels and an object of 3.5 meters already gives you a better resolution than 20 cm per pixel.
3. You have to remember that to increase resolution you also have to increase the mirror lens. Putting a satellite into orbit around the earth is much easier than to the moon, so I assume that the cameras they put there are much smaller to save weight and are therefore less good in advance.
4. Personally, it annoys me a bit that someone "doesn't buy" something based on technological developments that they have no clue about. In my opinion, all conspiracy enthusiasts like to believe because it makes them think they understand something without actually understanding anything. It's a bit like being addicted to porn 🙂
No lunatic would invest the money in a spy satellite with inches of separation to prove to Mr. Idan that there is an American flag on the lunar soil.
But you're still young, and you're like that, so I believe you'll still get to see this flag in pictures from regular cameras when there are experimental colonies on the moon.
There is also a laser mirror there, installed by Armstrong, which is used for precise measurements of the distance of the moon from the earth - and it is also of course a partner in the conspiracy
Noam,
LRO also participate in the conspiracy, of course. Together with the satellites that take pictures with a separation of a few centimeters, and follow people.
Photoshop?
It is hard to believe that with all the sophistication and spy satellites that exist today that are able to take pictures with a separation of a few centimeters,
All they managed to photograph was 20 black pixels of an object 3.5 meters in diameter
Unbelievable in my eyes and on the other hand it is hard to accept that they are lying to the whole world with these pictures.
How does this fit in with the claim that all the moon landings never happened, but were filmed in the MGM Alps?