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I hope this finally wakes up the nay-sayers so they can grasp reality.

I worked with a guy who said the Apollo 11 Moon landing was fake....hope he is eating crow....

So there is gravity on the moon that these items just didn't float off into space?

Yes, Jodie, there IS gravity on the Moon. IIRC, it is about 1/8th the strength of our planet's gravity.

In fact, EVERYTHING has a gravitational field, even YOU.

Cheers,
Robert~

Well... If they wanted to "fake" the moon landing...why would they design a lander that would leave evidence behind?...A Flag, and "moon buggy" tracks...those moon landing cover up conspiracy theorists are a strange bunch...

I am not a doubter, I always wanted to be an astronaut. But--why are there not tire tracks from the lunar rovers? It would seem more obvious than the tool buggy from 14.

I am 35yrs old, I do believe we went to the moon but...

If we did go, why have we not gone in so many years, we just barely and literally touched the surface?

How could those tapes have been erased? I understand it was a "Live TV Event". But seriously, you don't save the tapes for historical purposes.

This really proves nothing If this LRO is that close (30 miles)then why can't we see more detailed pictures of the landers. We still see the same vague pictures from before.

Note from Ned Potter--

Hello to j_in_neast. You asked a good question--why no tire tracks from the Apollo 15-17 rovers? NASA's answer is that LRO has not settled into its final lunar orbit yet, and only if the sun is very low do such subtle details stand out. They got lucky with Apollo 14. Later in LRO's mission, they say there should be higher-resolution images.

And Devils_Advocate, you raised the question about the erased tapes from the Apollo 11 EVA. It so happens I did that story three years ago, when it first turned out they were missing, and Stan LeBar, the retired engineer in charge of the design of the video camera system, was beside himself. He said they were not simply videotapes, they were data tapes with a lot more on them than video signals. That may--may--explain why someone later missed their importance, he told me. But you're quite right. It would have been nice to save those tapes for history.

I love hearing from conspiracy theorists. They are a fascinating bunch of people. The 9/11 folks are the most fun to deal with. Just don't try to dissuade them. Instead just listen and enjoy. . .

FAKE!!

I am not a doubter of the landings but those photos are of a very low quality. Maybe the objects are just so small in relation to the focus area thats the best they can be.

One more note to Jodie... anything that has mass has gravity. The larger the mass, the more gravity something produces. The moon is smaller than the earth, which is why it has less gravity and the astronauts seemed to "bounce" in the videos. The moon definitely has enough mass for items such as fuel tanks to "stick" to it, but there's no atmosphere - the vacuum of space sits right up against the moon's surface. That's why items left there decades ago are still sitting in the exact same spot.

My name is on an access panel of the LRO. Anyone else on this board get in on the "Send Your Name to the Moon" program? It wasn't too well advertised.

Wow! Sure is nice to know that we are borrowing $$$ from China and Saudi terrorists to take crappy photos of moon garbage.

Hey Ned. Next time try write a sentence to mention the cost of all this.

And, see if ya can get anyone at NASA to explain exactly how going back to the moon will help the everage starving human child.

Jodie, the moon's gravity is about 1/6th that of earth. The pictures are low resolution because as stated, the orbiter is still settling into its final orbit. It takes a little time for an orbiter to be positioned in a permanent orbit. Plus they're testing everything for the long term mission. Tor, all that "crappy moon garbage" made the high tech electronics we use every day possible. The need to make the systems as compact and light as possible led to the development of electronics as we know them today.

The_Mick: Not only is my name on the panel, but I also carved my name into a piece of foil that was then added to the camera housing in a cleanroom!

To all those who question and doubt based on their own experiences: If you go out today in the deserts of southern California and north Africa you can find tracks from armored vehicles training for or fighting in WWII. Ye;s, Patton's tankers and Rommel's tankers left their marks, and even Mother Nature couldn't, or didn't, destroy them. So it is with the astronauts. Get over it, doubters, and find a new life and a new cause.

As with so many of the things we are led to believe as "true", there can and should be room for reasonable doubt where one's government is concerned. And do remember that not only is NASA government, they are DoD as well. I also wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, but you'd still have to be a kid to take everything the press spews out at face value. "News is something that someone, somewhere, does not want revealed. Everything else is advertising."