U.S. spacecraft Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter scheduled in mid-September is lowered on orbit just 50 km above the surface of the moon.
Picture from the spot, Apollo 17 astronauts 1972nd The
Never before an aircraft with or without ludske crew was in a stable orbit so low over the surface of our natural satellite. In addition to a range of other instruments, the public are the most important high-resolution images of the spacecraft sent to Earth. Only a month to cover nearly all the media was covered with the first high-resolution images on which you can see the landing site of astronauts to the moon and parts for equipment in the seventies left there in the Apollo missions.
NASA has already announced to us in the next few months expect the photos even better resolution. Now, the first such photographs and published. Low orbit above the Moon and extraordinary photographic apparatus which LRO has given us even perceive objects the size of his feet landing gear lunar module (50 cm per pixel resolution).
Photo Apollo 17 landing site where you can see accessories
For our readers, there are several photographs that best demonstrate eagle vision LRO's. But that's not all. Head of Mission believe that in the coming weeks be able to draw even more detail. But it will not be a godparent only technique but also the position of the sun above the lunar horizon. The outlines of items you make a human hand in a favorable position, light / shadow to give the final result.
Once unthinkable is now available worldwide, and proponents of the idea that "we were" on the moon lost another "argument".
The photos were shown parts of the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972nd Are preserved and visible even footprints of astronauts on the moon or the route of movement of astronauts. LRO will of his working life poslikati all the landing sites of the Apollo program.
Almost simultaneously with the publication of these photographs, the rocket Ares IX was performed by the successful experimental flight. This is the launch complex, which would in the next fifteen years, people should return to the moon. This time not to come and go but to come and stay on the moon.
Enlarged Photo Details Apollo 17 landing site, see the lunar module and the flag that the astronauts left on the Moon
Marino Tumpić
