In that situation, faint objects like stars simply aren't going to show up.Ĭonspiracy status: debunked Conspiracy theory 4: the Apollo 11 US flag is waving in the wind. If you're going to take a photo of a brightly lit scene, your camera's shutter speed needs to be fast and your aperture incredibly small. The sky may look black, but remember, this is in fact daytime on the Moon. Here's another solution: both the astronauts and the lunar landscape itself are brightly lit by the Sun. NASA could not have faked the full wonder of the lunar sky, and so they simply chose not to include any stars at all. If the image really was taken on the Moon, shouldn't the sky be filled with stars? After all, there is no atmosphere to distort the image, no clouds to interrupt that glorious view.Ĭonspiracy theorists argue that the lack of stars in the Apollo 11 mission photographs prove that the event was staged. Here is another Moon landing photograph which has caught conspiracy theorists' eye.īuzz Aldrin carries experiment equipment during the Apollo 11 Moon landing (NASA) Travelling through the Van Allen radiation belt if you are going fast enough – which you need to be if you’re going to the Moon – is no problem whatsoever."Ĭonspiracy status: debunked Conspiracy theory 3: why are there no stars in pictures of the NASA Moon landings? "In a similar way, the transit time through the Van Allen radiation belt right at the beginning of the Apollo voyages was incredibly short. From a science point of view, as long as you walk across quite quickly, looking at the thermal conductivity of your feet, you are not going to have enough thermal energy going into the soles of your feet to burn you. "If you’ve ever done firewalking, you’ll know the one thing you don’t do is linger around in the middle of the firepit. If that is the case, how did the Apollo astronauts travel through the Van Allen radiation belt and out of Earth's orbit unharmed? Surely the amount of radiation would have killed them? Doesn't this prove that the Moon landings were a hoax? Just like the images from Apollo 11, the shadows will not be parallel. Go outside when the Sun is low in the sky and see this effect for yourself. Artists have been using this for centuries." If you are trying to reduce on to a two-dimensional plane a three-dimensional situation, you can make lines do all sorts of weird things. "You have all seen this phenomenon yourself, where, because of perspective, parallel lines appear to be non-parallel. "This is on the surface of the Moon, but we can reproduce this effect any time we want to on Earth," Prof Ojha explains. Surely if the Sun were the only light source, then the shadows should be parallel? Doesn't this prove that the whole scene was mocked up in a studio, with multiple light sources creating different shadow patterns? This image has been taken as proof by conspiracy theorists that the Moon landings were faked. A footpath left by the Apollo 14 astronauts looked like some faint dark lines.Photograph taken by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 Moon landing (NASA) The missions took place in 1969 (Apollo 12), 1971 (Apollo 14) and 1972 (Apollo 17).Īs NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reported earlier for the Newscast desk, in the first images of the Apollo landing sites sent back two years ago by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter "part of the Apollo 11 lunar module could be seen as a little dot. Equipment such as the descent stages of lunar modules and cables running to two instruments from the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package left behind by Apollo 12 astronauts. Trails created by footprints from all six astronauts during the three missions, as well as tracks made by Apollo 17's Lunar Roving Vehicle (which also appears as a small dot in one photo). Though not close-ups by any stretch of the imagination, the images do offer more detail than other photos taken two years ago by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is now circling the moon.Īs it flew over landing sites of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 missions, the orbiter snapped pictures that show, among other things: Tracks and equipment left on the moon by astronauts from three of the Apollo missions can be seen in new photos just released by NASA. The Apollo 17 landing site: To the far right, the Lunar Roving Vehicle Toward the center, the descent stage of the Challenger lunar module.
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