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Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by ChemBreather
Go stand under a street light and look up and see how many stars you can see. The reflectivity of the moons surface blocked out the stars in the pictures. One of the reasons that the astronauts didn't see stars is because they would have had to lean back to look up above them. If they did that with the backpack on they would have toppled over, and once they were on their back it would have been extremely difficult to get up again.
Originally posted by ChemBreather
wierd camare excuses, caus this has to apply for all or none space photograph's
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
There's more than backdrops to setting up a movie set,
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Have you looked at this thing? Do you really think that thing could have landed on anything, let alone the moon, in those goofy spider legs with the big pads and the gold foil and all the rest? The hokey ladder coming down?
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Here's a NASA film talking about exploratories with unmanned satellites to check out the moon some more concerning the radiation so that perhaps in 2020 they might attempt a moon voyage.
Does this sound like people who went to the moon six times in the early '70s?
Not to me it doesn't.
75,000 miles of van allen belts. Think of it. Just getting anyplace near them is severe radiation according to the Shuttle people and they see stars when they close their eyes from the atoms blinging off their retina. And they are only 300 miles or less above the earth.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
I bet you didn't know that the person that the belts were named after said that it was safe to go through them, did you. Do you even know anything about them? The Van Allen belts have thicker more dangerous parts over the equator, and much thinner parts towards the poles. Apollo went through them quickly, through the thinner areas of the belts. The reason that the shuttle astronauts see stars from it is because they're staying in them for their entire period in orbit.
A mere 3mm aluminum shielding will expose an astronaut to a total of 2500 rems a year. That's if they stayed in the Van Allen Belt.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Shuttle never went through the belts, just near them. 75,000 miles is not something you can go through quickly. Since when did we hear of any Apollo mission or any other mission finding the "thinner" parts of the Van Allen belts to go through? The belts were never discussed because it is an embarassment to NASA to try to explain them away. Please document that the moon voyages went through the "thin" portions and how "thin" these were. This sounds like made up claptrap to me. I've read a lot about the moon landings, so called, and never heard anything about any special routing to avoid the "thick part" of the Van Allen belts.
Their shape and size vary somewhat with the shape of Earth's magnetic
field, which is influenced heavily by the solar wind. The inner belt
is fairly small and sharp; things start to get warm beyond about 1000 km
up and are really hot between about 3000 and 5000. This is at the
equator; the hot part only extends about 20 degrees north and south,
although things are still warm out to considerably greater latitudes.
The hot part of the outer belt starts at about 15000 km and ends at
about 20000, but again these numbers are at the equator; the shape in
cross-section is a crescent, with the high-latitude "horns" rather closer
to the Earth. The warm parts extend much further; Clarke orbit is in
the outer fringes of them, and the whole area between inner and outer
belts is somewhat warm. To avoid the belts, one must stay low, stay
a long way out, or operate only at the extreme poles (which is tricky
since polar orbits do cross the equator).
The Earth's atmosphere limits the belts' particles to regions above 200-1000 km, while the belts do not extend past 7 Earth radii RE. The belts are confined to an area which extends about 65� from the celestial equator.
Proponents of the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax have argued that space travel to the moon is impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen himself, still alive and living in Iowa City, has dismissed these ideas.
In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts who visited the moon probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer during their lifetimes, but still remain unlikely to become ill because of it.
The populations of energetic particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field have come to be known as radiation belts because the doughnut-shaped regions within which they are confined encircle Earth like huge belts. There are two distinct belts: an inner one whose lower boundary is at an altitude of about 250 mi (402 km) and whose less-well defined outer boundary is at a radial distance of about 10,000 mi (16,100 km) and an outer one which extends outward from 10,000 mi (16,100 km) to over 50,000 mi (80,500 km). Both belts encircle Earth in longitude and have the greatest concentration of trapped particles at its magnetic equatorial plane. The concentration diminishes with increasing latitude north and south of the magnetic equator and falls to nearly zero over the north and south polar caps at latitudes greater than about 67°. Each trapped particle spirals around a magnetic line of force, oscillates between magnetic "mirror" points in northern and southern hemispheres, and drifts slowly in longitude. This defines a doughnut-shaped region.
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Originally posted by Zaphod58
They launch as close to the equator as they can, because it gives them a boost. The earth is spinning faster at the equator than at the poles. But you notice that after launch they are heading more northerly. By the time they get into orbit they're in the more northern region of the belts.
As for the shuttle not being in the belts, the belts start at about 250 miles. Depending on the mission, the shuttle orbits anywhere from 185 miles to 230+ miles when they're at the ISS. The Hubble service missions are at 350 miles.
Originally posted by ChemBreather
I see it every time some one is claiming an fake moon landing, and that is there is no stars in the photos, is that the fact or isnt it ?? Im not coming forth with what I saw untill I get an solid YES or NO on the issue, is NO STARS in the moon photos a proof of an Fake moon landing or not ? I think it is of great importance..
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by spacecowgirl
Really?
Which part of the Nevada desert?