I think that this pic (found via the Bad Astronomy message board) gives a first glimpse of the Apollo 11 landing site from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - the first time it has been directly imaged.
Cool!
Edit: yep - now official on the LRO site… Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | NASA
In fact 5 of the 6 sites have been imaged.
Check out the Apollo 14 one - you can even make out the trails of footprints left by the astronauts!
Wow - footprints. Just like my astronomy books when I was a kid said would still be there.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed some of the Apollo landing sites showing equipment, footprints and the LEM.
Sorry, I did not see the other Apollo thread.
And the LRO is suspended from the ceiling of the studio. 
Thanks for posting this. Very cool.
You know, every now and then I see something like this and think, hey! Man went to the moon! That great big rock in the sky that, for centuries, was a god or a source of magic or just a hole in the firmament. A bunch of people put their heads together, strapped some brave souls to a rocket, and people walked around up there!
It kind of makes me proud, in a brotherhood of man kind of way. And very awed.
Isn’t Photoshop wonderful?
What?
The shadows are all wrong!
One word of advice: Try not to think of this in terms of the deniers. They live in their own world and will not be swayed by petty things like evidence and logic. Make this about the science and the achievements of the human species. It was an amazing accomplishment, even if some people can’t accept it.
I agree. I pledge to not make any more ‘it didn’t happen’ jokes. It’s so 2001, anyway.
If foot prints are showing but lunar dune buggy tracks arent this is gonna give the deniers another whole generation of ammo !
Uggh!
I don’t think they had the dune buggy things on Apollo 14 - I think those were only on the last couple.
Yeah - 15, 16, and 17 only.
But it could be photographed from high orbit! You even see the posters’ footprints! It’s so obvious!
(You think it was all done on a soundstage, don’t you?)
Actually, the large version of the Apollo 17 picture seems to show lots of astronaut debris (or at least lots of those stark shadows from objects sticking up) all around the module.
This is so cool.
The pictures were obviously faked by NASA in a transparent attempt to validate their patently false ‘moon landing’ hoax. Sheesh…
-XT
Sorry, xtisme did not see all the other ‘itz all a h0ax!’ jokes in the other Apollo thread.
Totally missed the other thread…I just saw this one pop up on the main forums screen so thought I’d get in my own shot before anyone else did. C’est la vie…
-XT
That was done in a studio, too.
It’s kinda fun to pretend to be a CT nut just for once.
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I combined the two threads.
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