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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, on a current mission to map the Moon for upcoming lunar missions, has taken images of Apollo lunar landing sites. UPDATE: NASA has released these pictures on Friday, July 17, 2009.
From earlier, according to the NASA media brief NASA briefs media on new images of Apollo lunar landing sites, “The agency will release the images Friday, July 17, at noon and hold a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss the photos and future plans for the LRO mission.
An update to this iTWire article will occur later these pictures are released.
If you wish to listen to this media teleconference online, go to NASA Newsaudio.
Participating in this Friday, July 17, 2009 teleconference are: Michael Wargo (chief lunar scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.), Richard Vondrak (project scientist, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland), and Mark Robinson (principal investigator, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, Arizona State University).
For additional information about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter robotic mission to the Moon, visit NASA LRO.
UPDATE: NASA just released these images. They are available for viewing at its website "LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites."
The article states, "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."
Author's note: Even though NASA isn't stating this directly, no doubt one reason why these pictures are being released is to dispel rumors that NASA really didn't go to the Moon in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Conspiracy theories usually are present in any such major news story (for instance, the current theories on Michael Jackson's death--there are many, just do a search on "Michael Jackson conspiracy theory"). The vast majority of them are based on only conjecture and the vast human ability to develop alternative scenarios to reality.
Humans also have the vast ability to reason out truths from falsehoods, and to come up with reasonable hypotheses for theories needing investigation. Scientists do it every day! It is performed with logic and common sense.
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