Flerf Whisperer: LROC and Chandrayaan photos of the hardware left at the landing sites

2026-10-05T07:07:03Z

LROC and Chandrayaan photos of the hardware left at the landing sites

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LRO is not run by NASA. It is the University of Arizona and several other organizations. [http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about/team The team list.]

LROC is a set of cameras on the LRO satellite, orbiting the Moon between 50 and 200 km. [http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about About LROC.]

They have photographed the landing sites more than once, at different times of the lunar day. The footpath to the crater is on the Apollo 11 frames.

* [https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/1 Apollo 11]
* [https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/2 Apollo 12]
* [https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/3 Apollo 14]
* [https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/4 Apollo 15]
* [https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/5 Apollo 16]
* [https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/6 Apollo 17]

[[File:LROC_Apollo11_M111443315R.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 11. LROC NAC M111443315R, 29 October 2009. The bright spot is the descent stage. The line running away from it is the footpath to the crater.]]

[[File:LROC_Apollo12_M175428601R.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 12. LROC NAC M175428601R, 8 November 2011. Dark disturbed ground, and the tracks leaving it.]]

[[File:LROC_Apollo14_M150633128L.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 14. LROC NAC M150633128L, 25 January 2011.]]

[[File:LROC_Apollo15_M122184104R.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 15. LROC NAC M122184104R, 2 March 2010. Rover tracks fan out from the descent stage.]]

[[File:LROC_Apollo16_M129187331L.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 16. LROC NAC M129187331L, 22 May 2010.]]

[[File:LROC_Apollo17_M168000580R.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 17. LROC NAC M168000580R, 14 August 2011. Tracks run out from the descent stage in both directions.]]

== India ==
Chandrayaan-2 orbited the Moon and photographed the surface, including some of the Apollo landing sites. [https://pradan.issdc.gov.in/ch2/ PRADAN, Chandrayaan-2.]

OHRC, the orbiter high resolution camera:

* Apollo 11: [https://i.imgur.com/mR4iI5S.jpeg image], [https://twitter.com/Ramanean/status/1496128432811708416 post].
* Apollo 12: [https://i.imgur.com/dNqmKg7.jpeg image], [https://twitter.com/ing_battisti/status/1496452743078289409/photo/1 post]. Compare with the [https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/2/site_images/46 LRO photo].
* Apollo 14, from Chandrayaan-1: [https://x.com/Ramanean/status/1291353569371643904 post].
* Other landing sites: [https://x.com/Astro_Neel/status/1165345178665848832 collection].
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comments/syl3wk/recent_ohrc_data_release_covers_apollo_11_and/ The OHRC data release], and the [https://pradan.issdc.gov.in/ch2/protected/browse.xhtml browse page].

[[File:Chandrayaan2_OHRC_Apollo11.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 11, Chandrayaan-2 OHRC. The descent stage is the bright knot. The shadow runs off to the right.]]

[[File:Chandrayaan2_OHRC_Apollo12.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 12, Chandrayaan-2 OHRC. Descent stage, shadow, and the tracks beside it.]]

[[File:Chandrayaan2_Apollo12_OHRC_and_LROC.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 12. Top, Chandrayaan-2 OHRC, product ch2_ohr_ncp_20210405T1606536730, labeled ISRO. Bottom, the same ground in LROC NAC M117650516R.]]

[[File:Chandrayaan1_Apollo14.jpg|center|800px|Apollo 14. Left, Chandrayaan-1. Right, LRO. Both mark the descent stage. The Chandrayaan frame also marks the astronaut tracks.]]

LRO and India's space agency are not NASA. They are not under NASA oversight. A lot of people work in each place. An accusation of fakery has to come with evidence.

== See also ==
* [[Moon landings]]
* [[MCToon Big List]]

[[Category:Apollo evidence]]
[[Category:Moon]]
[[Category:Spaceflight]]
[[Category:Globe evidence]]

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Flerf Whisperer: LROC and Chandrayaan photos of the hardware left at the landing sites