yeah because it would prove it never happened! not that I care one way or the other.

Also to the person who said the conspiracy theorists refuse to believe the evidence, well that’s because pictures are very easy to manipulate. So until there’s LEGIT proof, like we go back again say…. then you’ll always have nonbelievers. I find it amazingly strange that no one has since walked on the moon. That is the biggest reason people won’t believe it happened. Until that happens nothing will change.

It’s unbelievably inspirational and moving. I also quite enjoy the Galileo Hammer and Feather test performed by Cmdr. Scott on the Apollo 15 mission. For everything Galileo suffered through in his lifetime for trying to push us forward I thought it was an incredibly touching display by people of the future STANDING ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON to mention Gally by name and hold his experiment there in his honor.

Everything about NASA and all the space programs across the world represent something truly fascinating and exciting. It’s brilliantly moving to see that there are people that not only dare to dream and dare to ask questions, but are also solving these problems—but not forgetting the people (even hundreds of years ago) that dared to dream as well even in the face of adversity or death.

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Damn you and your facts! Damn you, I say!

Haw haw!

Besides, hoaxers (real or trollish) will never change their story. Why? BECAUSE THEY MAKE MONEY AT IT! Same with UFO nuts, alternative “medicine” quacks, and all the rest.

It’s a great scheme: a guaranteed population of followers who will always need a quick path to “expert” status or a chance to become an initiate in an elite group that’s “in the know,” and an endless supply of free content — be it NASA pictures or hokey hubcabs flying through the sky — that can be packaged into books, DVDs, and other paraphernalia and sold to the hungering masses.

L. Ron Hubbard made a mint using the same business model.

But anyway, the PLSS is clothed in bright white beta cloth, which is optically diffusive. Kapton reflects more like metal foil. Crinkled Kapton will have a large amount of surface area oriented to mirror-reflect sunlight directly toward the observer, whereas beta cloth will scatter light evenly, with much less of it per area going to the observer. This photo was taken very close to local noon; the conditions favor a strong signal from the Kapton, not from beta cloth.

This is about as good as it’s going to get. Note what the BA said: “…this time LRO is in its 50 km mapping orbit, so the resolution on this image is…about 50 or so centimeters (20 inches).” So LRO isn’t getting any closer to the Moon.

Also, note the resolution and the altitude: 50 cm (20 inch) resolution at 50 km (30 mile) altitude. The poles in the flag pole are only about an inch wide, so LRO would need to be 20 times closer than it currently is, or about 2.5 km (1.5 miles). I seriously doubt NASA would try to pass over the Apollo 11 site at that altitude.

I am sad that even a picture won’t convince a conspiracy theorist

I’m not sure I understand why this comes as a surprise.

After all, we already have hundreds of pin-sharp close-range photos of the Apollo hardware. These are the pics taken by the Apollo astronauts while they were there. The HBs believe their nonsense despite all of these photos, so I really don’t see how any photograph will convince any of them.

And I hope comment #79 was a troll

Are we currently at the max resolution that the orbiter is capable of or might it be getting better images in the future?

Yeah, I guess it takes one to know one, huh? And isn’t “Saddened” just a little contradictory? First he says we’re arrogant, then he suggests the only way to find wisdom is to “look to yourself.”

I got your wisdom right here, Saddened, straight from the heart.

I couldn’t let this one pass…talk about ARROGANCE!

“Case in point: Name one event from the 15th century on the top of your head… If you are like me you thought of the discovery of the America’s.”

Sigh.

Such stupendous arrogance. There have been people living in the “Americas” far longer than the entire written history of man. There was nothing “discovered” in the 15th century. You people keep wandering all over Creation looking for wisdom, and you keep looking in the wrong place. But then, it hurts too much to look to yourself, hmmm?

But, the photo is a minorly interesting technical achievement.

I mean, sure it was a huge achievement, but damn, every time I heard of anything that happened before ’69 I always thought to myself “Wow, that’s a long time ago, they haven’t ‘even’ landed on the moon yet!”

It was as if an era had changed (Civilization-style).