FAKE Chandrayaan-2 images of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites
The pictures to the right are fake, as are the two stories I had linked 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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The pictures to the right are fake, as are the two stories I had linked 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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News


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 –
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.
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.