I was wrong, if this is right. apollo did land on the moon., page 1

Originally posted by stanlee
iits all bukllocks especially with apollo 14. when did the astronauts get large enough to have foot paths and foot prints visible from space.

Well anything can be visible from orbit, it just depends on the magnification one has. In the case of the LRO it took the images of the Apollo sites at roughly 1m/pixel, which were the highest resolution photos ever taken of the Moon. And now that the LRO is in it's mission orbit, it's already putting out images at roughly 50cm/pixel. They will take new images of the sites again a number of times.

And you don't need to be a giant to make a noticeable disturbance on the Lunar soil. If you pay close attention to the astronauts feet while they move around, you'll notice them kick up a lot of the Lunar dust, so it's not just the foot prints that we see, but the disturbed soil around them as well. Also, on Apollo 14, they were dragging this thing along with them. AS14-68-9404 It's the Modularized Equipment Transporter or MET for short.

The apollo mission wasnt there long enough to create such tracks.. so where are we stuffing the gargantuan astronauts?

Each of the Apollo missions (note plural) stayed for different lengths of time. Apollo 14 stayed on the surface for 33.5 hours, a bit over 9 of those hours were spent doing two EVA's. EVA 2 lasted about 4.5 hours. That's more than enough to to walk 1.3km to Cone crater and back.

The later missions spent even longer amounts of time. The longest being the last mission, Apollo 17 with a Lunar surface stay time of 75 hours.

Originally posted by nightmare_david
The LM looks perfectly squared and it's pixels don't match the surrounding pixels. As if it's been added in.

Well when you're looking at an object that's only a few pixels in size, of course it will look square. Since the pixels themselves are square.

I can also make out a very faint line that looks like it might be a seam line. Like you usually see in shots of the Moon where the images are seamed together to make the whole image.

I don't believe the images from the LRO's main camera are stitched together. They do however have vertical interlacing, perhaps that's what you're seeing.

I forgot to mention that I can't make out any footprints around the LM.

The soil in the area just above the LM in your image looks a bit darker to me. Also, have you seen the second image of the Apollo 14 site? The Sun angle is higher, so some details pop out more. link