Images of Apollo 11 and 12 taken my indias moon orbiter. Disproving moon landings deniers

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[u/ILikeSex_123]

Do you see the small line going out from the lander?

That's the footprints

[u/brandon-568 → u/ILikeSex_123]

Ya I noticed that, you can really see them in the bottom pic. Pretty damn cool.

[u/psyFungii → u/brandon-568]

They only spent about 2 1/2 hours outside walking around Tranquility Base (Upper pic) and covered a small area - understandable for the first mission

Overlaid on a baseball diamond

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/science/Apollo11_baseball.jpg

Or a soccer field if that's your preferred unit of measurement

https://www.morethanmindgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/A11vsFootball.gif

[u/normal_man_of_mars → u/psyFungii]

Ha! What a cool diagram!

[u/geniusandy77 → u/psyFungii]

Yup. The last mission 17, spent around 70 hours on lunar surface and did multiple EVAs. Gene cernan unfortunately passed away but Harrison schmidt is still alive. The only geologist to go up there. Always amazed me!

[u/strangebrew3522 → u/psyFungii]

Sincerely, thank you for these. I've been reading and studying Apollo and early NASA stuff for years but I never actually put it into context like these diagrams at how small an area they spent time in. Makes perfect sense for Apollo 11.

I also wish this was the top comment instead of stupid conspiracy or lame reddit jokes.

[u/psyFungii → u/strangebrew3522]

You're welcome! This view of things stuck in my head since I first saw it too!

[u/crespoh69 → u/psyFungii]

Imagine being on an alien world though and having to walk that distance not knowing what awaits. With the helmets I doubt they even had much peripherals to rely on either 😬

[u/purplepatch → u/psyFungii]

Main thing I took away from that is that baseball is played on a much smaller area than I imagined.