LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites

Will these images quiet "the moon landings were faked" conspiracy theorists? I doubt it - they will reason if they faked the moon landing, they can easily fake a few digital pictures.<p>Notice how close Apollo 16 landed to a huge crater. I wonder what kind of resolution the mission planning maps had.

I think the coolest of these is the Apollo 14 image with the footprint trail. Sure, after 30 years we'd expect the landers to still be there, but now we know that the footprints and other scuff marks are still there too. Neat.

Can anyone explain this issue (<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/925dl/apollo_landing_sites_images_by_lro_bad_astronomy/c0b6g3a" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/925dl/apollo_landin...</a>) Google moon not matching these images? INACT (I'm not a conspiracy theorist) just curious.

I was really expecting / hoping that they would release high resolution, quality images of these landing sites, particularly Apollo 11.<p>Don't we have the technology to capture these sites in striking clarity, to finally put to rest the ridiculousness of claims we didn't get there when we did?