Both sides of the Story.
Personally I feel that Man landed on Moon.
New photos of several Apollo moon landing sites were released today (Sept. 6), showing extraordinary new details about three areas on the lunar surface that were visited by humans. The images include the sharpest views yet of tracks left by the astronauts and their lunar rovers.
“The images look very spectacular, as you can see for yourself,” Mark Robinson, an Arizona State University, Tempe scientist, who is the principal investigator of LRO‘s camera, said in a news briefing today…
Revisiting the Apollo missions
The new batch of images released today represent three different lunar landing sites: Apollo 12, Apollo 14 and Apollo 17. Scientists and historians alike are hoping they will help paint a clearer and moredetailed picture of the Apollo missions.
In particular, being able to clearly see tracks and equipment on the moon – and their relative brightness or darkness on the moon’s surface – can reveal important clues about the lunar environment.
“From a science standpoint, [the images] are important for two reasons,” Robinson said. “They tell us something about the photometric properties of the moon – why are they darker? Scientists are working to investigate that question. In a more practical sense, it allows us to find the exact spot where samples were collected.”
http://www.space.com/12835-nasa-apollo-moon-landing-sites-photos-lro.html
Moon Landing a Fake?
All the buzz about the Moon began on February 15th when Fox television aired a program calledConspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? Guests on the show argued that NASA technology in the 1960’s wasn’t up to the task of a real Moon landing. Instead, anxious to win the Space Race any way it could, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios. Neil Armstrong‘s historic first steps on another world, the rollicking Moon Buggy rides, even Al Shepard‘s arcing golf shot over Fra Mauro– it was all a fake!
Here’s another one: Pictures of Apollo astronauts erecting a US flag on the Moon show the flag bending and rippling. How can that be? After all, there’s no breeze on the Moon.
Not every waving flag needs a breeze — at least not in space. When astronauts were planting the flagpole they rotated it back and forth to better penetrate the lunar soil (anyone who’s set a blunt tent-post will know how this works). So of course the flag waved! Unfurling a piece of rolled-up cloth with stored angular momentum will naturally result in waves and ripples — no breeze required!
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast23feb_2/
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