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Jul 22, 2009 - 01:28am PT
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They want us to get all excited (in a reasonable kind of way) about some mission to Mars, funded by McDonald's, Disney or Microsoft
The Disney version is in Voyage to the Red Planet, by Terry Bisson. A good read for the tiny hours of the Martian night.
Ends with a cosmically ambiguous "good luck."
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jul 22, 2009 - 05:56pm PT
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Um, yeah, so did the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, was able to image five of the six Apollo sites, with the remaining Apollo 12 site expected to be photographed in the coming weeks.
The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.
But reality can't faze hoax believers.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Jul 22, 2009 - 06:11pm PT
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Great link, chiloe, thanks for posting it--now they need to follow these up with all of the vehicle tracks on the surface and life can go on...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jul 22, 2009 - 07:05pm PT
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You can actually see the footprints. LRO images should get sharper, once it's in final orbit.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Jul 22, 2009 - 07:48pm PT
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You sure those aren't vehicle prints?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jul 22, 2009 - 09:27pm PT
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Actually, I think Apollo 14's Shepard and Mitchell towed a two-wheeled vehicle informally called the "rickshaw", or more formally the modularized equipment transporter (MET) to carry their stuff on the geological traverse.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Jul 22, 2009 - 10:15pm PT
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40 years?
Dick Tracy landed there in 1964, 5 years before Apollo 11.
Brought Moon Maid back with him. I think he also had an iPhone with a wrist strap.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jul 22, 2009 - 10:19pm PT
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The "two-way wrist radio." I wanted one of those!
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