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Posted 9/6/11 2:22 p.m.WASHINGTON (WLS) - A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972.
Images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 13 to 15 miles up show the astronauts' paths when they walked on the moon, as well as ruts left by a moon buggy. Experts could even identify the backpacks astronauts pitched out of their lunar landers before they returned to Earth.
PHOTO GALLERY: Apollo Revisited: More images of Apollo sites from LRO
PHOTO GALLERY: Additional imagery related to this story from ASU's LROC website
"What we're seeing is a trail," said Arizona State University geology professor Mark Robinson, the orbiter's chief scientist. "It's totally awesome."
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so does this bunk the theory of some of the nuts that say we never went to the moon and it was all staged in the desert somewhere?
Posted 9/6/11 2:22 p.m.WASHINGTON (WLS) - A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972.
Images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 13 to 15 miles up show the astronauts' paths when they walked on the moon, as well as ruts left by a moon buggy. Experts could even identify the backpacks astronauts pitched out of their lunar landers before they returned to Earth.
PHOTO GALLERY: Apollo Revisited: More images of Apollo sites from LRO
PHOTO GALLERY: Additional imagery related to this story from ASU's LROC website
"What we're seeing is a trail," said Arizona State University geology professor Mark Robinson, the orbiter's chief scientist. "It's totally awesome."
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so does this bunk the theory of some of the nuts that say we never went to the moon and it was all staged in the desert somewhere?