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New Apollo 17 Landing Photo Clearly Shows Lander, Flag
Gizmodo.com ^ | 10/31/09 | Rosa Golijan

Posted on 11/02/2009 8:04:39 AM PST by 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?


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: apollo; apollo17; landing; moonlanding; nasa; oldglory; orbiter; photo
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Not that this will satisfy the loonies but, its cool none the less.
1 posted on 11/02/2009 8:04:40 AM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

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


2 posted on 11/02/2009 8:06:29 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Reaganesque

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.


3 posted on 11/02/2009 8:07:29 AM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: Reaganesque

The old neighborhood looks the same.


4 posted on 11/02/2009 8:08:48 AM PST by OB1kNOb (As government grows, corruption flows.)
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To: Reaganesque

Of course it was Photoshopped. /s


5 posted on 11/02/2009 8:09:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Reaganesque

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.


6 posted on 11/02/2009 8:09:44 AM PST by cvq3842 (A fool and his liberty are soon parted.)
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To: Reaganesque

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


7 posted on 11/02/2009 8:09:51 AM PST by immadashell
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To: Reaganesque

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


8 posted on 11/02/2009 8:10:13 AM PST by immadashell
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To: Reaganesque
Fine, let's move on...

9 posted on 11/02/2009 8:10:41 AM PST by evets (beer)
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To: Reaganesque

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


10 posted on 11/02/2009 8:10:43 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Frantzie
One answer is Von Bruan and his team of Germans.

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

11 posted on 11/02/2009 8:10:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Reaganesque

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


12 posted on 11/02/2009 8:11:26 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: Reaganesque

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


13 posted on 11/02/2009 8:11:50 AM PST by Rennes Templar (All Hail the Community Organizer -in -Chief)
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To: Lurking in Kansas

Oh you beat me to it.


14 posted on 11/02/2009 8:12:27 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: dfwgator

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


15 posted on 11/02/2009 8:13:20 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: Proud2BeRight

You’re thinking of Queen Sheila Jackson Lee.


16 posted on 11/02/2009 8:16:01 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: Reaganesque

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


17 posted on 11/02/2009 8:17:30 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

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


18 posted on 11/02/2009 8:18:47 AM PST by WilliamWallace1999 ( Rebel without a clue.....)
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To: dfwgator

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


19 posted on 11/02/2009 8:19:16 AM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: dfwgator

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


20 posted on 11/02/2009 8:19:22 AM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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