Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization Moon Orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites after more than 50 years.
The photos were taken by Chandrayaan 2 orbiter in April 2021 and were resumed on Curiosity’s X page – who post on Wednesday about space exploration.
“The image of Apollo 11 and 12 was taken by the moon orbiter of India. Rejecting the moon landing Daniers,” written on X, as well as overhead photos that show landing vehicles on the surface of the moon.
Apollo landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, leading to Neel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first made men to walk on their surface.
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Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization Moon Orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites after more than 50 years. (India Space Research Organization)
Astronaut Michael Collins, the third person of Apollo 11 mission, stayed in the orbit, while Aldrin and Armstrong moved to the moon.
The lunar module, known as the eagle, was left in the lunar orbit, as the command module was the next day with a randezism with colins and the eagle eventually returned to the lunar surface.
Apollo was NASA’s second crew mission to land on the moon on November 12, 1969, with Charles “Pete” Conrad and Alan Bean became the third and fourth people running on their surface.
Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin deployed a scientific experiment package on the surface of the moon. The background has a lunar module, as is a flag in the United States. (Photo by Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Image) (Neel Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images)
The Apollo missions continued till December 1972, when the program closed and astronauts became the last person to run on Eugene Sernan Moon.
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The Chandrayaan -2 mission was launched on July 22, 2019, exactly 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission and two years before the 1969 Chandra Landers images were captured.
In addition to NASA’s Apollo 12 ‘fearless’ lunar module, American astronaut Elon Bean removed the equipment from the Moduleor Stowage Assembly (MESA) on the Surface of the moon on November 19, 1969. (NASA/Interim Archives/Getty Image)
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India also launched Chandrayaan -3 last year, which became the first mission to successfully clean the south pole of the moon.
