The American Aerospace Agency (NASA) has published images of the lunar surface, which show traces of the stay on the satellite of American astronauts who flew there on the Apollo
These photographs should put an end to the "lunar conspiracy" theory, according to which the American landing on the moon was just a mock.
The pictures were taken with a high-resolution camera mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA assures that in the photographs you can see the landing sites of the Apollo (12, 14 and 17th) and even see the tracks of astronauts who studied the lunar surface.
Near the Apollo 17 landing site, the trail of the lunar rover is clearly visible, as well as the places where the astronauts put research equipment to study the Earth's satellite.
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We can easily trace the route of the astronauts when they collected samples of the lunar soil, says a lunar geologist at NASA's Goddard Noah Petro Space Center.
From each landing site, footprints lead west, where astronauts have installed a set of scientific instruments to explore the lunar surface of the Apollo Program (ALSEP). This equipment was the main goal of every ship's flight.
“These photographs bring us back to the fantastic story of manned flights to the moon and inspire us to continue our exploration of the solar system,” said Jim Green, head of NASA's planetary science department.
The "moon race" between the USSR and the United States began in 1961, when President John F. Kennedy offered Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev a joint landing on an earth satellite, but the secretary general refused.
On July 16, 1969, the American Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Canaveral with a crew of three - Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. On July 20, they landed on the moon, and on July 21, Neil Armstrong made an exit to the lunar surface. All over the world, with the exception of the USSR and the PRC, there was a live broadcast, and about 500 million people watched this event.
After six landings until 1972, the United States curtailed the Apollo program.
Since then, every year