US Moon Flags Photographed

NASA has released  photographs showing that  most of the flags placed by crews of the Apollo spacecraft are still standing on the Moon. Shadows cast by five of the six US flags put up in the 1960s and 1970s are visible on the surface of the Moon. The Apollo 11 flag was knocked over as the Apollo 11 craft began ascending from the surface.

Mark Robinson, an investigator with the Funar Reconnaissce Oribiter Camera (LROC), said: "From the LROC it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11.

The flags may not have retained their vibrant red, white and blue colours though. Exposure to heat, cold and light may have caused them to fade, Dr Robinson added.

Well there you have it. I doubt that the "hoaxers" will believe a word of it but then they are a bunch of arseholes

Tracks Across the Moon

According to the Guardian yesterday the American satellite, Lunar Reconaisance Orbiter, has captured the sharpest images of a number of Apollo moon landing sites.

lunar reconnaissance orbiter got close enough to see the spacemen's path when they walked on the moon. The photos also show ruts left by a roving vehicle and even backpacks pitched out of the lunar landers before the US visitors returned to Earth.

From a distance of just 13 to 15 miles above the Moon's surface, LRO captured images of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites.

The photograph above is of the Apollo 17 landing site. The Challenger descent stage, tracks made by the lander crew and the ALSEP, Apollo Lunar Surface Experimental Package

Doubtless skeptics will cry photoshop or the like

More information is available on the LRO site