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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:15 am 
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17jul_lroc.htm

The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has imaged the landing sites of several of the Apollo missions. Most of the images show the descent stages that remained behind on the lunar surface, but the image from the Apollo 14 site includes one of the science packages left behind and the trail of footprints that Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell made between the two locations (sadly there are no images of the golf balls the Shepard knocked around). The only landing site not shown is Apollo 12, but hopefully they will add that one in the future.


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very cool indeed

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Thats really cool 8) Makes you wonder how they found the sites???

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Thats really cool 8) Makes you wonder how they found the sites???


We didn't just willy nilly pick a dart up and throw it at a picture of the moon. Landing sites were carefully selected beforehand.

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You can look at some cool mapping with mission specifics on google earth.... a lot of people don't know that you can zoom out to the moon and check it out :D

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You can look at some cool mapping with mission specifics on google earth.... a lot of people don't know that you can zoom out to the moon and check it out :D


If you think google earth is cool you should check out Nasa worldwind, its like google earth, but good:
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

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Sir Sam wrote:
Diggerfreek wrote:
Thats really cool 8) Makes you wonder how they found the sites???


We didn't just willy nilly pick a dart up and throw it at a picture of the moon. Landing sites were carefully selected beforehand.


I think he was referring to the latest images of landing sites?

Yet Apollo 11 missed the intended landing mark when Armstrong overshot it. He & Aldin had 30 seconds of fuel remaining in the landing rocket before they decided not to abort and land. It has been documented they had 15 seconds of fuel in the tank when the Eagle landed.

On that note, today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Tonight on the Discovery channel is the documentary "When We Left Earth". If you've never seen it, watch it. It is the most in-dept account of the historic mission.

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oddball wrote:
Sir Sam wrote:
Diggerfreek wrote:
Thats really cool 8) Makes you wonder how they found the sites???


We didn't just willy nilly pick a dart up and throw it at a picture of the moon. Landing sites were carefully selected beforehand.


I think he was referring to the latest images of landing sites?


I know he was, I'm saying we knew where we landed in 69, and we know where out satellite is pointed on the moon, ie its not like we had to search through thousands of random images for a spec.

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Hey I've got one to add;
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The NASA sites are neat, lots of information. Lately I've been getting a kick out of watching the International Space Station in orbit. You have to be in the right place at the right time with the right weather because it travels across the sky in less than four minutes. Here's a link: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

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Sweet! I'm gonna check to the NW on Thursday so that I can try and catch the shuttle going across the sky. 8)

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