Space Saturday XXX
Thirty five years ago today, Apollo 16‘s Lunar Module (LM-11) Orion landed in the Descartes highland region on the Moon. To commemorate, here are two images from the surface of la Luna.
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Credit: NASA (Source)
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Credit: NASA (Source)
The top image was taken by Commander John Young of LMP Charles Duke Jr. on the edge of Plum crater. The “Lunar Module pilot, is photographed collecting lunar samples at Station No. 1 during the mission’s first extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site.” The bottom image is of John taken by Charlie (with John in mid-jump).
Check out the Apollo 16 Wikipedia article for more info and images (which also has a video clip of the lunar rover). You can also peruse NASA History Division’s On The Moon With Apollo 16: A guidebook to the Descartes Region. And be sure to stop by Google Moon to see the relative positions of the lunar landers.
Oh, happy National Astronomy Day!
For more astronomy photographs, see my Space Saturday Archive.
The quality of the photographs always astounds me. Professional grade! Long focus… quite impressive.
Fascinating stuff.
Indeed, I love it!
You can do great things with photographs when they are taken on a controlled sound stage.
the moon landing is faulse. as you can see in the pic… no stars. also the flag is waving. wait i though there was no gravity. hm
1) Can you see stars during the day? Those pictures were taken during DAY time. There are classes available to take about photography and aperture and shutter settings.
2) The flag waves because it is attached to a rigid pole that swayed after being touched.
3) There is absolutely gravity on the moon. About one sixth that of the Earth’s. Many introductory astronomy classes are available as well.
the pole isnt moving the flag is. have you ever seen the movie? the flag is ‘waving in the wind’. also in the movie it shows amstrong stepping of the ship and saying the famous quote. but wait how did someone catch him doing that? i thought he was the first to step off the ship. HOW DO YOU NO IT WAS DAY TIME? THERE IS NO GRAVITY ON THE MOON!!! that is why they had to wear the really heavy space suits. Many introductory astronomy classes are available as well. if you wanna look up the vidio that explains why the moon landing is false go onto Google, and look up the moon conspiracy part one. At the time the US wanted to ‘say that they were the first on the moon’ just to beat russia. b/c at the time russia was ahead of the US in space research. 20% of the world believes the moon landing was false.
No offense Summer, but you are really showing your ignorance.
1) Again, the flag waves because the pole it is attached to is shaking. If you attach a fabric to a rigid pole and shake it, the material will wave.
2) Someone didn’t “catch” Armstrong getting off the Eagle. There was a camera mounted on the spacecraft specifically to catch the moment.
3) How do I know it is day time? Because there is sunlight on the surface. When the sun is out, that is what we call day.
4) As I said before, the moon has one sixth the gravity of Earth. EVERY single physics and astronomy textbook will state this fact. Check any number of them or any number of online resources out. The moon has gravity.
I have a bachelor of science in both physics and astronomy and actually know a decent amount about the subject. What are your credentials?
Again, I hope you don’t take offense, but it is really difficult to have serious and meaningful conversation when you make claims that have never been substantiated (let alone the ridiculous claim that the moon doesn’t have gravity).
I have seen a number of moon landing conspiracy videos and they are fought with claims just like yours that are completely false and easily discredited. What is your source that 20% of the world believes the moon landing was false? And regardless of what the general public believes, the science completely supports the landing.
thats cool guess you cant argue with a scientist. no offense taken its wat i believe and personally im not really into science so all i care about is the path to heaven. (and maybe my future job working outside) up there is were all questions will be answered.
goodnite and GOD bless
Summer you should absolutely be able to argue with a scientist. Scientists argue all the time. But evidence and logic is what drives those arguments. Claims need to be backed up with evidence, that is how we go about figuring things out.
And you are absolutely right, there are more important things than this. I am a person a faith and know there are many more Ultimate things out there, but science is still extremely interesting to me.
thats good i guess we all have interest. i mean someone has to answer questions
Keep asking questions and looking for answers!