New Apollo 17 Landing Photo Clearly Shows Lander, Flag

Gizmodo.com ^ | 10/31/09 | Rosa Golijan

[Reaganesque]

It's blurrier than old MySpace snapshots, but it's there as expected. The Apollo Lunar Modules and the US flag left behind at the Apollo 17 landing site has been caught in a close-up image by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The lander as well as the flag, or rather the remaining flag pole, seen in the image above are exactly where they should be based on this shot by the Ascent Module "right after Apollo 17 lifted off the Moon":

Going a step further, the location can be compared to more recent images of the landing site and everything still jibes up. So, can we now finally quiet down with the moon landing conspiracies and focus on figuring out how to colonize the tubes up there? Pretty please?

[Reaganesque]

Not that this will satisfy the loonies but, its cool none the less.

[Da Coyote]

One must remember that science is not exactly the prime talent of the loons (Obamaloons and others.....)

[Frantzie]

Fake. If you look at the talent pool today - you wonder how they were able to get to the moon and back. One answer is Von Bruan and his team of Germans.

[OB1kNOb]

The old neighborhood looks the same.

[dfwgator]

Of course it was Photoshopped. /s

[cvq3842]

Cool!

I believe the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC has a piece from an unmanned lunar lander that spent a few years on the Moon before the Apollo 12 astronauts brought it back.

[immadashell]

There also appears to be the wheel tracks of the Lunar Rover in the top picture.

[immadashell]

There also appears to be the wheel tracks of the Lunar Rover in the top picture.

[evets]

Fine, let's move on...

[Proud2BeRight]

I thought Maxine Waters was going to have the Mars Rover drive over to get some shots of that flag. LOL

[dfwgator]

One answer is Von Bruan and his team of Germans.

"No Senator... our Germans are better than their Germans."

[Lurking in Kansas]

Obviously fake ... it’s a Google Earth shot of inter city of Detroit.

[Rennes Templar]

Obviously doctored photos. Where are the shadows?? (sar/)

[netmilsmom]

Oh you beat me to it.

[MotorCityBuck]

The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists...:0

[a fool in paradise]

You’re thinking of Queen Sheila Jackson Lee.

[Dallas59]

FAKE! George Bush and Cheney drew these in the White House!/s

[WilliamWallace1999]

Survey says....ICE STATION ZEBRA. Did I get the obscure movie reference of the day correct?

[Frantzie]

LOL! NASA now is like the U.S. Postal Service - it has been ACORN-ized.

[Frantzie]

LOL! NASA now is like the U.S. Postal Service - it has been ACORN-ized.

[MotorCityBuck]

...and all of a sudden, you know a whole damn lot about my business!

:) We have a winner!

[onedoug]

...and focus on figuring out how to colonize the tubes up there?

That would require capitalism, which is in rather short supply these days.

[dfwgator]

LOL! NASA now is like the U.S. Postal Service - it has been ACORN-ized.

Of course none of it would have been possible without, The Old Negro Space Program

[Mad Dawgg]

"It's blurrier than old MySpace snapshots, but it's there as expected. The Apollo Lunar Modules and the US flag left behind at the Apollo 17 landing site has been caught in a close-up image by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter."

One problem, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was faked as well to cover up the clear evidence that the lunar landing was faked.

We need to stop spending all this money on fake science and direct all our funds to the settled Science of Global Cooling Global Warming Climate Change...

yours truly

Al Gore

[Carl LaFong]

All I see is the ‘Umbrella Man’, a CIA marksman, one of Jack Ruby’s strippers and a controlled demolition.Oh, and fire don’t melt steel.

[null and void]

That’s cold...

[null and void]

Yeah. And you beat me by five minutes...

[MotorCityBuck]

Lol

[cripplecreek]

That reminds me.

Isn’t Obama supposed to shock the world with the “truth” about alien visitors any day now?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

That’s not what the Martians looked like! They looked like over-breeding giant grasshoppers, always jumpin’ around! What was the name of the very creepy movie?

[PA-RIVER]

If you look at the right top corner, you can see a kid with a two by four smacking another kid.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

What the flip? How come my wife never told me she was an astronaut? THAT was the closest-to-the-LEM parking spot available?????

[Reaganesque]

Tuesday. On ABC. (”V” the new series)

[Reaganesque]

Well, the closest spaces to the LEM were all handicap parking so...

[D_Idaho]

I think you’re thinking of the great British sci-fi pic “5 Million Years to Earth.” Workers find a Martian spaceship while excavating a subway tunnel in London. Great picture!

[mwilli20]

as well as the flag, or rather the remaining flag pole

What does that mean? Where is the flag?

[jimmygrace]

If you follow the circular tracks NW, NE, and S, you can barely make out Nicole’s real killers, James Brolin’s manhood, and Sam Shepherd’s common sense!

[LoneStarGI]

One of my favorite Mythbuster episodes was were they pretty much disproved all the the lunar conspiracy theorists wrong.

[cripplecreek]

You can never really prove the lunar conspiracy theorists wrong because all proof simply becomes part of a greater conspiracy.

[wny]

If you look real close, you can see some of the soon-to-be missing, uncounted ballots in NJ governors race. All for Corzine I’d bet.

[wny]

If you look real close, you can see some of the soon-to-be missing, uncounted ballots in NJ governors race. All for Corzine I’d bet.

[Redcloak]

You’re not fooling us. Anyone can see that the third “rock” from the left is really a table left by craft services while they were filming the staged landing.

[dr_who]

Would have been more interesting if it wasn't in the picture.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

ha-ha!!

[CholeraJoe]

The flag’s shadow and the lander’s shadow go in different directions. The sun won’t do that. Poor lighting job in the studio.

[dangerdoc]

There is no Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[mcshot]

Having just watched Apollo 13 refreshed my wonderment as to how our Country did it. But you’re right and I wished I would have paid more attention to the mighty Saturn V which dwarfs todays heavy lifters. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!

[null and void]

#27 was supposed to be to you.

[Rodamala]

I remember seeing that movie as a kid on the Sunday afternoon UHF sci-fi matinee... VERY CREEPY.

[sten]

why hasn’t anyone just turned the hubble on the moon? is the site not visible directly?