SMART-1 to Image Apollo Landing Sites 36
An anonymous reader writes "Space.com is reporting that the European Space Agency's SMART-1 probe is imaging the Apollo landing sites on the moon. The resolution may be good enough to see mineral evidence of the blasts created by landing craft. Photos expected too. The article says it "might put to rest conspiratorial thoughts that U.S. astronauts didn't go the distance and scuff up the lunar landscape." I wouldn't bet my Buzz Aldrin doll that hoax buffs will cease and desist."
Re:What would REALLY be cool... (Score:3, Informative)
Any problems with lunar dust covering things, one wonders?
Since the moon lacks any atmosphere, there is no wind up there, so I guess the dust will still be where it was 35 years ago.
We landed on the Moon. (Score:5, Informative)
If you have your doubts, or otherwise find yourself giving credence to the Apollo hoax theories, you owe it to yourself to visit that site. There's nothing wrong with questioning government and understanding that it's possible (possible != probable, and as hard as it was to land on the Moon, imagine how much harder it would be to fake it in an open society where not only would you have to trick hundreds of thousands of engineers and support personnel as well as thousands of scientists, but also the astronauts who are still alive today and have not contradicted the stories, all the while you can't have made a single mistake that would expose the conspiracy!) that the Moon landings were faked, but this is a case where the evidence is fully on the side of the conventional story.
Re:We landed on the Moon. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:That's PRECISELY what I meant (Score:3, Informative)
Dust can also be raised by... (Score:3, Informative)
It's a very tinfoil-hat site, but nevertheless some of the reports and studies they cite are quite real.
Of course we landed on the moon! (Score:3, Informative)