Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites
I have been quite intrigued by the photos from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter taken a couple of weeks ago which show the Apollo moon landing sites. As you can see in the photos below, there are are few dots with shadows showing the lunar modules left on the moon surface from the manned missions. Plus in the Apollo 14 photo you can see what NASA describes as the Astronaut footpath between the lunar module and scientific instruments.
Apollo 11 Landing Site (photo: NASA)
Apollo 14 Landing Site (photo: NASA)
I have often wondered about the moon landings. While I hadn’t necessarily bought into the conspiracy theories that the moon landings were a hoax, it also seemed too incredible to be true that man could land on the moon just 66 years after the Wright brothers (or as us New Zealanders prefer to state ‘Richard Pearce‘) first succeeded with sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight.
While the die hard conspiracy theorists will argue that the photos have been photoshopped, it seems to me that the images provide strong proof that the US did land manned misions on the moon.
In December 1972 Apollo 17 was the sixth and last manned mission to the moon. It seems a shame that in the 37 years since we have made no further progress in manned exploration of the moon.
More photos are available from NASA Lunar Reconnaisance Orbitor.
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