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FAKE Chandrayaan-2 images of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites

Chandrayaan-2 images of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites
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The pictures to the right are fake, as are the two stories I link to in the now crossed-out post below. Both stories included pictures of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites that were fake and did not match the actual pictures taken earlier by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

I seem to remember that Chandrayaan-2 had taken pictures of these Apollo landing sites, but I have not been able to find those originals. Either way, the stories below as well as the pictures to the right are fake, and for that reason I have deleted the links to both.

For reasons I don’t understand, two different news outlets in the past two days decided to highlight the 2021 images taken by India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites, with both outlets claiming these pictures provided third-party verification that those manned lunar landings actually happened.

Those pictures are to the right. They aren’t new, but they are so good I decided they were cool enough to post again.

As for proving the lunar landing happened, that is pure anti-American silliness, sadly too often pushed by ignorant Americans. They should be ashamed. The Apollo landings were possibly the greatest single achievement Americans have ever accomplished. And if not the greatest, the landings rank near the top, and above all they certainly were among our noblest achievement.

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5 comments

  • Some morning weirdness for your consideration:

    The photos in your links aren’t the same. First link is to inf.news. Its photos do not look like the photos in the second link, Mike Netter X post, which you used. For example, the large crater to the left (up sun) of the Apollo 12 lander is not present in the inf.news. The pair of craters in the inf.news photo immediately to the left of the Apollo 11 lander (upsun) are not present in the Netter photo. Two different landing sites misidentified in one or the other pair of photos? At least the inf.news photos had the ISRO numbers which were cropped out of the Netter photos.

    Remarkable how different the two landing sites were. Apollo 11 in all photos was a lot rougher than that of Apollo 12. Imagine NASA would have liked it the other way around for the first landing. Cheers –

  • Blackwing1

    I may be mistaken but I believe that the picture of Apollo 11’s lander also shows the knocked-over American flag just below and to the left of the lander itself.

    That’s some remarkable photo resolution, although I don’t know the altitude of the orbiter above the lunar surface.

    Of course, there is NOTHING that will convince the fake-landing conspiracy whackos that, yes, the American people actually sent human beings to our moon.

  • agimarc: Good catch. I missed this. The mismatch of images further illustrates the weirdness of both stories, coming out of the blue at the same time about photographs taken by Chandrayaan-2 five years ago.

    Not reliable. This was originally provided by Jay to include in the quick links. I upgraded to a full post because the images were so good. Now I wish I had dumped it entirely.

  • Rex W Ridenoure

    Examination of multiple images of these two sites taken by the known-to-be-reliable LRO suggest the two images claimed to be taken by the Indian orbiter are fake. See for yourself readers:

    Apollo 11: https://lroc.im-ldi.com/featured_sites/1/site_images

    Apollo 12: https://lroc.im-ldi.com/featured_sites/2/site_images

  • Rex Ridenoure: You have convinced me that this story is garbage. I am going to revise it to make this fact clear.

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