NASA LRO images Apollo 14 landing site

[mike bacanin]

NASA's LRO Lunar Orbiter has sent back first images of the Apollo 14 landing site that show the descent stage and its shadow,due to a favourable low sun angle, the astronaut's footprint trail and the scientific instruments near the descent stage.

greater resolution images are expected later.

here's a link, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

Mike

[Tim]

Thanks Mike

[Sparrow]

Excellent - perhaps the conspiracy theories about man not going to the moon can be put to rest now.

Interestingly, the picture of the Apollo 11 site - I remember the footage when Armstrong was on his final approach, and the large crater he had to skip over just before he landed - that crater is clearly visible in the image just to the right of the lander base.