Images From The Moon
This month the china national space administration released all of the images from their recent moon landing to the public.
Images from the moon. There are now hundreds and hundreds of never before seen true color. Photos of the planet venus which is much brighter than any of the stars were taken from the moons surface by astronaut alan shepard during the apollo 14 mission. See photos of earths moon and full moons from national geographic. Photos of the solar corona that included the planet mercury and some background stars were taken from lunar orbit by apollo 15 command module pilot al worden.
This was nasas. Among the images is a 360 degree panorama stitched together from 80 photos taken by a camera on the lander after it released the rover onto the lunar surface xinhua said citing li chunlai. Now while theres a rather short but succinct list of why thats the case and feel free to review those. In 1972 apollo 17 astronaut jack schmitt was photographed with earth visible in the sky above him.
Fifty yeas later we are looking back through all the photos taken on the moon. Nasa nasas lunar reconnaissance orbiter lro launched to the moon on june 18 2009 on a mission to map earths natural satellite and look for resources that could be valuable. Moonnasagov is nasas deep dive resource for lunar exploration from astronauts to robots. There are now hundreds and hundreds of never before seen true color.