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July 20, 2009
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Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Aerospace

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and it seems only fitting to show what 'Tranquility Base' and the other sites look like today. NASA recently photographed the landing sites at high resolution.

Apollo landing sites
Apollo landing sites 40 years later.
Photo: NASA

If you look closely at the Apollo 14 landing area, you can see the very off-road tracks made by the Lunar Rover.

Comments

Dale, are you part of the Apollo conspiracy as well?!
Oh, no, we're doomed!
Get it right- the Earth is flat, at the center of the Universe, and the Sun revolves around it! Don't fall for the Copernican conspiracy!
Glad to have got you straightened out.


Posted by Nuke Gray! at July 20, 2009 07:18 AM

It still blows my mind to think that we went up there, came back safe and sound. You'd have to have something missing from your brain not to be buzzed by this great achievement.

I'll be toasting them all.


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at July 20, 2009 08:17 AM

It still blows my mind to think that we went up there

And then just packed up and came home again.

Still, I continue to believe that the Greeks, Trojans and Jupiter orbit will be the real centres of human civilisation. All that luvverly mass just floating there all bunched up.

O'Neill was right - the proper home for man is space, not sitting at the bottom of some gravity well.


Posted by CountingCats at July 20, 2009 02:04 PM

Dale - minor correction - Apollo 14 didn't have a lunar rover. They had a sort of shopping cart thing which is what has left the tracks. Indeed, the struggles they had with this were part of the reason to upgrade to the "j-missions" and the lunar lander.

Having spent years being sneered at by retarded conspiracy theorists, these are quite satisfying to see, although obviously not surprising. Presume they will all hold up their hands and admit they were wrong, just like they did about Anastasia, socialism, etc.


Posted by manuel II paleologos at July 20, 2009 02:29 PM

Presume they will all hold up their hands and admit they were wrong,

Photoshopped


Posted by CountingCats at July 20, 2009 02:38 PM

Yeah, Cats, the shadows are all wrong.

(Seriously though, awesome photos.)


Posted by Sam Duncan at July 20, 2009 07:41 PM

Manuel is right, the first lunar buggy was Apollo 15.


Posted by Thomas at July 21, 2009 12:22 AM
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