- The Japanese have been to the moon, the Russians have
been to the moon, the Chinese have been to the moon. Yet curiously none
of these lunar efforts has produced clear visual evidence of the Apollo
landings. In 2009 NASA released images from their LRO or Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter. Finally, visual evidence of the astronauts being on the
lunar surface was revealed. The LRO images are so good that one can actually
see the footprints of the astronauts as they walked through the lunar dust..
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- But look at the images from Apollo 16 and 17. What
happened to the rover tracks? Those missions carried with them the
Lunar Rover, an electric powered car that they used to drive around the
lunar surface.
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- Thinking about it, the one piece of clear evidence that
could easily be seen from an orbiting imaging system would be the vast
amount of lunar rover tracks. We could follow the tracks easily in
the imagery and actually see where the rover and the astronauts went. Since
there is no weather or wind on the moon the tracks should still be there
just like the astronauts footprints. But yet, on close examination
there are zero lunar rover tracks.
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- The instrumentation is probably real. Even the
footprints are probably real. NASA went to the moon. But what
they did there and how they got there have never been revealed. Not
really. The real question left is why release the images without
the lunar rover tracks? Why not photoshop them in? In
seeking the answer to that question we can see that someone inside NASA
wants us to ask the question.
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- http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html
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