Posted
7/18/2005 05:41:00 PM
by Douglas
Put this story in your tin foil hat and
smoke it. US scientists are planning a 240,000-mile trip down memory lane - a tour of inspection of all the Apollo landing sites on the moon.
In 2008 a powerful camera aboard a new spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will photograph the moon's surface in fine detail - fine enough to pick out the Apollo 17 moon buggy abandoned 33 years ago, along with lunar landing platforms and other relics.
The camera will have a resolution of half a metre. So a moon buggy three metres long and two metres wide should show up clearly.
Is this going to convince anyone that still believes the Apollo landings were faked? Of course not. Anyone with a pirated copy of PhotoShop can put Louis Farrakhan eating a BLT on the surface of the moon. They're not the type to be swayed with photographic evidence.