The North American Space Agency (NASA) has released high-resolution photos of the Apollo lunar program for the first time. More than 9,000 high-resolution images, never seen before by anyone but experts, have recently been posted to the Flickr photo hosting site for free use. According to NASA, this is only the first step in popularizing the photographic documents of the Apollo program, and in the near future more photographs will be posted in the public domain.
The Apollo program operated from 1961 to 1975. During this period, 11 manned expeditions were sent to the natural satellite of the Earth, of which 9 reached the Moon, 6 successfully landed on its surface, and one, due to an accident, was forced to fly around the Moon without landing and return home (the other 2 performed preparatory tasks and landed on The moon was not provided). The cost of the thirteen-year program was $25 billion (139 billion in 2005 dollars), which is almost 10 times less (!) than the cost of the 9-year war in Iraq.
The six successful missions are Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17. Apollo 13 almost had a tragedy due to an accident on board. It was decided to cancel the landing on the Moon, the crew was ordered to transfer from the service module to the landing module, and in an emergency way they were sent back to earth.
Especially for the readers of this blog, I posted all 9000 photos and made a selection of photos from several expeditions of the Apollo lunar program.
02. Apollo 11 Expedition - July 20, 1969 First successful moon landing| The Lunar Lander carrying Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin has undocked from the Service Module and is heading towards the surface of the Moon. The third crew member - Michael Collins - remained in the service module.
03. The first picture of the surface of the Moon after landing.
04. Unfortunately, this collection does not contain photographs of the exit of Neil Armstrong - the first man to walk on the moon. From the porthole, the staircase along which Armstrong was descending was not visible. His exit was recorded only by a television camera mounted on an external rack, through which a live broadcast was conducted to Earth. A few minutes later, Armstrong moved her to another location. All that Edwin Aldrin was able to photograph in those minutes was the American flag, which Armstrong stuck in the lunar soil, and a television camera standing in the distance.
05. If there was a photojournalist on the Moon at that time, then Armstrong's exit filmed by him could look something like this. Here Armstrong filmed Aldrin's exit. At that moment, it was important not to slam the hatch behind us. There was no handle on the outside of the exit hatch. If the hatch had slammed shut, the astronauts would not have been able to enter the module and return to Earth.
06. As you know, the first words spoken by Neil Armstrong for the first time stepping on the lunar surface were: "This is a small step for man, and a huge leap for mankind" (One small step for man, but giant leap for mankind).
07. Footprint of one of the astronauts in the lunar soil.
08. Few people know that the first object that the astronauts threw on the surface of open door, there was a bag of garbage (!). Very human, isn't it?
09. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walk on the moon. One is posing, the other is taking pictures.
10. Labor lunar weekdays began. Edwin Aldrin installs the solar wind collector screen. He was a sheet aluminum foil 30 cm wide and 140 cm long and was designed to capture helium, neon and argon ions.
12. Edwin Aldrin deploys a seismometer.
14. Soil samples are taken.
15. Edwin Aldrin poses next to the flag. This photograph has been the subject of heated debate over the years. Adherents of conspiracy theories argued that the supposedly waving flag indicates that the shooting was not done on the moon, but on the ground, and here the action of the wind waving the flag is evident. Fortunately, now anyone can go to the photo archive of this expedition and view all the photos that were taken that day. The bending of the fabric of the flag is the same in all the photographs, which eloquently testifies to the absurdity of the conspiracy theorists' suspicions. When the wind shakes the fabric of the flag, its shape will change every second and it is almost impossible to repeat it.
16. It is known that when preparing the first expedition to the moon, engineers proceeded from the assumption that over the billions of years of the history of the moon, a layer of dust several feet had accumulated on its surface. Therefore, the "legs" of the lander were made long, with the expectation that during landing they would drown in the dust. To the surprise of NASA developers and engineers, the dust layer on the Moon turned out to be no more than 3-5 cm. Does this indicate the young age of the Moon, and therefore the Earth? There is something to think about.
17. The astronauts were on the lunar surface for 2.5 hours. When they returned to the lander, they threw away a few more items that they no longer needed - portable life support packs (the same ones they carried with them), upper lunar shoes and a camera (the tapes with the footage, of course, were saved ). This was necessary in order to lighten the takeoff weight of the module as much as possible.
18. Commemorative plaque: "At this place, people from planet Earth first set foot on the moon in July 1969 AD. We came in peace on behalf of all mankind." The lower block of the lander, on the rack of which the plate was fixed, remained on the Moon.
19. Road home. The Apollo 11 lunar lander, after taking off from the moon, approaches the command module that was waiting for it in orbit.
20. Expedition "Apollo 12" - November 19, 1969. Second moon landing| Earth rising over the moon.
21. Another sunrise. Catchphrase: "Earth Rising".
22. View of the surface of the moon from the porthole of the lander.
23. Night on Earth.
24. One of the main tasks of the Apollo 12 crew was to find the Surveyor 3 robotic spacecraft, which had landed on the Moon 2.5 years earlier. The crew successfully coped with this task and landed the lunar module 200 meters from the Surveyor. In the photo, crew commander Charles Conrad near the Surveyor-3 apparatus. The astronauts removed some parts from it and took it with them to the ground. Scientists were interested in how these objects were affected by their long stay on the moon. In the background is the Apollo 12 lander.
25. Expedition "Apollo 15" - July 30, 1971. Fourth moon landing| This expedition was the first to use a lunar vehicle.
26. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent almost three days on the moon. During this time they made three exits to the surface with a total duration of 18.5 hours.
27. Traces of the wheels of the lunar car. The astronauts rode it 28 kilometers.
28. One of the astronauts installs scientific equipment.
29. The lunar car was developed by the engineers of the Boeing aircraft concern. The wheels are made from braided steel wire. The car was powered by electric batteries and could reach speeds of up to 13 km / h, and even more. However, a high speed was undesirable, since under the conditions of the Moon, the lunar vehicle weighed 6 times less than on the ground, and at high speed it was strongly thrown up on bumps.
30. Relatively weak gravity was the reason that when walking, a lot of lunar dust was raised, which settled on clothes. Notice the astronaut's dust-blackened feet.
31. Expedition "Apollo 16" - April 21, 1972. Fifth moon landing| Unlike previous landings, which took place on more or less flat surfaces, Apollo 16 landed in mountainous areas, on plateaus.
32. Morning run?))
33. Astronauts have clearly settled on the moon. Lunomobile parked near the landing module, scientific equipment, a working astronaut. There is no longer that wariness and uncertainty that are visible in the photographs of Apollo 11.
34. One of the astronauts soiled the lens.
35. Beautiful shot of the Earth hanging in space. We humans live somewhere on this planet. We are born, we die, we create something, we fight for some reason.... How petty and insignificant it all seems from afar, from outer space.
36. The surface of the moon as the lunar module approaches.
37. Expedition "Apollo 17" - December 11, 1972. Sixth and final moon landing| Thanks to the lunomobile, the astronauts were able to move several kilometers away from the lander and descend to the bottom of huge craters.
38. During the next landing in the lunomobile, crew commander Eugene Cernan hooked a wing above one of the wheels with a hammer sticking out of his pocket and tore it off. If on Earth such a breakdown is not considered serious, then on the Moon everything is different. Due to the lack of a wing, dust rose during the movement, which settled on the clothes of the astronauts and on the instruments of the lunar vehicle. The black color of the dust attracted heat and threatened to overheat. The astronauts had to urgently look for a way out of the situation. They managed to attach the wing with duct tape.
39. Collection of soil samples. The astronaut's clothes are stained with moon dust.
40. Lunomobile on the background of one of the mountains.
41. Lunar relief.
42. Return of the last lunar expedition. Dawn on Earth.
43. Huge ocean expanses. Oh, if only part of these spaces were land.
44. Our native blue ball.
46. The relief surface of the Moon and the rising Earth.
48. Astronauts who visited the moon were the only people who could look at lunar craters without a telescope.
49. During the Apollo 17 expedition, astronauts drilled 8 wells 2.5 meters deep. Explosives weighing from 50 grams to 2.5 kg were laid in the wells. After the astronauts left the Moon, the explosives were detonated on command from the Earth, and scientists measured the velocity of seismic waves using instruments.
50. On the way home, astronaut Ronald Evans makes a routine inspection of his ship.
52. Crew commander Eugene Cernan and astronaut Ronald Evans.
53. What kind of device is so unusual? Looks like someone's brain under glass.
54. Ronald Evans shaves on the way to Earth.
55. The command and service module "America" is waiting for docking with the lunar module, which last time launched from the surface of the moon. The flight of Apollo 17 was the longest manned flight to the moon. A record number of lunar rock samples have been delivered to Earth. Records were set for the duration of astronauts' stay on the lunar surface and in lunar orbit. Apollo 17 became the most productive and almost hassle-free lunar expedition.
56. More than 40 years have passed since the day when a man last walked on the moon. Will humans return to the moon again? And does it even make sense to fly to the moon again, if it is now known for certain that there is nothing of value there?
57. The Apollo lunar program is over. The last look at the mountain range on the surface of the Moon, which every night rises above the Earth and illuminates our fields with its white light, is reflected in a bright path in our seas, and shines through our windows while we sleep.
Photos: NASA
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The Moon is the closest space object to the Earth, which has always aroused incredible interest among different generations of mankind, since ancient times. People have always looked at the Moon with a certain bewitching mystery, trying to unravel its mysteries. At the same time, they themselves composed myths and legends about it.
The moon was the first celestial body on which, after the Earth, a human foot set foot. With the beginning of the space age, people gave up all their own efforts to learn as much as possible about the Earth's satellite. And each new expedition to the moon brings with it new discoveries. But even despite this, interest in this object has not diminished in any way. The more people learn about the new moon, the more mysteries this information carries.
We will also not be able to unravel the secrets of the celestial body closest to us, but thanks to the numerous photographs that astronauts and scientists managed to take, we will be able to discover the Moon from a new perspective. Few have managed to see these incredible pictures, but today we invite you to take a look at these unique landscapes, the center of which is the mysterious beauty of the moon.
The first human foot stepped on the surface of the Moon in 1969. Eight years after Gagarin made his first space flight in the history of mankind, a human foot set foot on the surface of the moon for the first time.
These scientific achievements in the field of space exploration in the last century, mankind is indebted to the so-called "cold war", which came after the end of World War II.
crater on the moon The political competition between East and West on the world stage has significantly accelerated the process of human space exploration. Otherwise, perhaps these significant events would have happened a little later.
Expedition "Apollo 11" (1969) But July 1969 came, and spaceship United States of America Apollo 11 was in lunar orbit.
The first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong filmed the exit of another Aldrin crew member Among the crew members who first landed on the lunar surface were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Apollo 11 Expedition - July 20, 1969 First successful moon landing The biggest problem in this case was landing. But on the evening of July 20, millions of people on Earth could watch on television as the captain of the spacecraft, Neil Armstrong, set foot on the surface of the moon.
The first picture of the surface of the moon after landing In his address to earthlings, the cosmonaut said that this one hundred steps to the moon is huge for all mankind.
Some time later, the first banner from the planet Earth appears on the Moon - the US national flag.
Man's first step on the surface of the moon After that, the rest of the crew landed on the surface of the Moon and explored its surface for another two and a half hours, photographing and collecting samples of the lunar soil.
Footprint of one of the astronauts in the lunar soil Over the next three and a half years, 10 astronauts will follow in their footsteps.
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the Moon. One is posing, the other is taking pictures. Gene Chernan, commander of the latest Apollo mission, leaves the lunar surface with these words: "We leave as we came, and with God's will, we will return with peace and hope for all mankind."
Edwin Aldrin installs a solar wind collector shield For the first time, images of the Apollo expedition were posted on the NASA website in 2015.
Prior to this, photos of the lunar program were not publicly available. The Apollo program worked from 1961 to 1975, during which time 11 missions were launched to the Moon, the participants of which were living people.
Edwin Aldrin deploys a seismometer Only 6 of them managed to land on the Earth's satellite. The most successful missions were Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17.
Soil samples are taken The 13th Apollo almost had an accident, so all the crew members went back to Earth with the help of an emergency module.
Edwin Aldrin posing next to the flag 
The second Apollo 12 expedition flew to the moon to find the Surveyor-3 lander, which NASA specialists had landed on the Earth's satellite 2 years before.
View of the surface of the moon from the porthole of the lander Scientists were interested in what happens to objects when they stay on the moon for a long time.
Apollo 12 crew commander Charles Conrad near Surveyor 3 The astronauts found the flying vehicle and removed some parts from it to take back to Earth with them for further research.
The lunar car arrived on the moon along with the crew members of Apollo 15 During the fourth moon landing on July 30, 1971, the Apollo 15 expedition stayed on the moon for three days and used a lunar vehicle for the first time.
Apollo 15 crew member installs equipment on the moon Crew members David Scott and James Irwin went to the lunar surface three times to conduct surface surveys.
In total, their stay outside the ship was 18.5 hours. And on the lunar car, the astronauts then drove 28 kilometers, leaving traces on the surface.
Lunar auto This miracle of terrestrial technology, invented by Boeing designers, could reach speeds of up to 13 km / h. The lunar car was powered by electric batteries.
Tracks from the wheels of the lunar car Only the astronauts could not accelerate at full speed, because the car on the moon became 6 times lighter compared to the weight of the earth. Due to lunar gravity, at speeds over 10 km / h, the car was tossed high on bumps.
Apollo 16 moon landing 
It was the Apollo 16 mission, which was lucky enough to "park" in the flat terrain of the Earth's satellite.
Photo of craters on the surface of the moon The last expedition of the Apollo 17 lunar program landed on the moon on December 11, 1972 and turned out to be the longest of all.
Apollo 17 crew members work on the lunar surface This time the astronauts were brave enough walking on the surface of the earth's satellite.
Collecting soil on the moon And with the help of the lunomobile, they were able to drive far away from their spacecraft and sink to the bottom of the craters.
Lunar landscape, 1972 These people were very lucky: they saw the craters with their own eyes, and not like the rest of the inhabitants of planet Earth - through a telescope.
While on the moon, the Apollo 17 crew members performed a special mission: they drilled several wells in the moon and planted explosives there.
After the astronauts went home, the explosives were detonated.
Thus, scientists were able to measure the speed of propagation of seismic waves on the moon.
In addition, the astronauts took home a large number of samples of the lunar soil, and in general, the last expedition was the most productive of all the previous ones.
The Apollo mission was successfully completed back in the 70s of the last century. Does it make sense to fly to the moon again? Look for the answer to this question further in our material.
These pictures were taken during all the successful expeditions to the moon that took place about half a century ago. Then the astronauts took pictures of the surface and landscapes of the Moon.
Since the beginning of 2018, the International Space Agency NASA has launched a new campaign in its activities, which concerns the study of the lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon itself.
Scientists have developed a whole program of additional study of the satellite of our planet, within which certain goals were set regarding manned flights to the moon and back, flights from the moon to Mars.
Of course, to implement such a project for a short time simply impossible, so it is designed for the next few years.
NASA's exploration campaign includes programs to study low-Earth orbit, orbit around the moon and its surface, and distant places, including Mars.
To do this, scientists work closely with major industrial companies the United States and international partners who own the innovative capabilities of science and technology and can support NASA astronaut expeditions.
Thanks to the first lunar exploration missions, we have unique photographs, the value of which is difficult to exaggerate today.
Lunar transit
On Sept. 9, NASA observatory scientists observed two solar transits as the Moon passed in front of the Sun. This phenomenon occurs when a celestial body passes between a large body and an observer. The first lunar transit lasted one hour, from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm EST, and obscured 92 percent of the Sun at the peak of its journey. The second transit occurred a few hours later at 9:52 pm and lasted a total of 49 minutes, ending at 10:41 pm ET. This transit covered only 34% of the Sun at its peak.
In this image, which was prepared by the scientists of the observatory, you can see a very interesting picture. At first, the Moon seems to be going in one direction, and then changes its path in the opposite direction to pass the Moon once more. Such a phenomenon became possible due to the fact that the spacecraft essentially caught up and overtook the Moon during the first transit.
Due to the fact that the Moon has no atmosphere, not a single ray of the Sun is distorted during transit, which allows you to clearly see the surface of the Moon. This dynamic image shows the rugged, crater-strewn valley and mountains of the moon's surface.
The space camera captured these images at ultraviolet wavelengths, so you can see that the Sun has warmed up to over 5.5 million degrees Celsius. Ultraviolet light is normally invisible to the human eye, but satellites such as SDO allow observation of the eddying motion in the Sun's atmosphere, visible only at these wavelengths.
Glacial deposits on the moon
The image shows the distribution surface ice at the lunar south pole (left) and north pole (right) detected by NASA's Lunar Mineralogy instrument. Blue represents patches of ice plotted on an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker for colder areas and lighter shades for warmer areas). The ice is concentrated in the darkest and coldest places, in the shadow of the craters. This is the first time that scientists have directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface. Scientists from the NASA space agency have tried to find accurate evidence of the presence of water on the Moon, at least as an ice cover. The astronauts tried to find these places in the darkest and coldest places of the earth's satellite. As we see in the photo, scientists still found these deposits, which may turn out to be ancient. South Pole The moon contains most of the ice, which is in the craters. At the north pole, ice is spread over a larger area, but more scattered.
Scientists from the University of Hawaii, led by Shuai Li, used data from the NASA Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument to identify three specific signatures that definitively prove water ice on the Moon's surface.
With the help of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which was launched by the Indian Research Organization in 2008 with unique equipment, data was collected confirming all the guesses of NASA specialists. In the photo, the lunar poles have some blue spots that indicate the presence of ice on the moon. But most of the glacial deposits are located near the craters, near the poles. In these places, the temperature never rises above -156 degrees Celsius. This is due to the small tilt of the Moon's axis, which does not allow sunlight to penetrate there.
Scientists hope that the deposits of ice found on the moon may be useful as a resource for future missions. This will allow you to stay longer on the Moon for research activities. Perhaps it will be possible to facilitate access to this frozen water.
Knowledge of lunar ice deposits, how they got there, and how they interact with the lunar environment will be key to a new mission by NASA and its commercial partners in the near future.
Atmospheric research on the moon
Looking at the Moon in the night sky, we see her gray-white attire, a dry desert in vacuum space, which has been in this state for billions of years. But astronaut scientists, with the help of special equipment, managed to see a slightly different picture.
The fact is that mankind has long been interested in questions about whether life on the moon is possible and whether there was ever an atmosphere on the moon. Planetary volcanologist Dell Needham and his colleague David Kring conducted certain studies and proved that there was an atmosphere on the Moon many billions of years ago. As the scientists explain, this atmosphere was slightly thicker than the one that exists on Mars today. It is this phenomenon that can prove the presence of water ice deposits at the poles of the earth's satellite.
These studies completely overturn the ideas of scientists about the moon. According to Needham, the atmosphere on this celestial body lasted a relatively short time, only about 70 million years. It was composed of carbon monoxide, sulfur and water. But over time, the Moon either lost its atmosphere in space, or it simply dissipated.
The image of the Moon that we can observe today in a telescope gives only a vague idea of how complex and dynamic the development of the Earth's satellite was, but does not tell us at all what is in its thickness.
The Moon is the only celestial body that is closest to the Earth.
Therefore, you can admire the earthly satellite with the naked eye every time it appears in the night or evening sky.
Sometimes the moon shines so normally that we don't even think about how beautiful it is.
But there are moments in life when the moon appears in the night sky in an incredibly interesting way.
It can easily change size, color and shape. In addition, lunar eclipses and supermoons occur in nature from time to time, when our natural satellite changes color to red or blue hues.
Of course, we have the good fortune to admire the Moon with the naked eye. But those who are lucky enough to have a telescope can take a closer look at the celestial body and see its surface.
In addition, many photographers spend a lot of time and effort to finally wait and catch an amazing shot with an extraordinary Moon.
Many different signs, beliefs and superstitions are associated with the Moon among the people. There are lunar calendars, lunar cycles.
And this is absolutely not in vain. After all, if this celestial body is able to influence the change of seasons on our planet, then its influence on a person seems undeniable.
Although we from Earth see the Moon in gray-white stone colors, in fact, its color is absolutely not like that. As it turned out recently, scientists released information that the Moon is still a “fashionista” and shimmers in many different shades.
Such a natural phenomenon occurs due to the fact that we are in an atmosphere that tends to break the rays of light, and we see celestial bodies that are outside our atmosphere in a distorted form.
Even our main luminary, the Sun, does not look yellow, orange or red, but simply white. This can only be told by those astronauts who managed to visit the earth's orbit.
And the multi-colored Moon has so many bright hues, thanks to the rock that is on its surface. Different types moon rocks are predominantly brown in color, but some of them shimmer with blue and pink hues. This combination in the rays of sunlight looks incredibly amazing.
The International Space Agency NASA plans to conquer the orbit of the Moon again only in 2024. To this end, the lunar program, which was mentioned earlier, has already been developed and promulgated. The need to further explore the earth's satellite among scientists arose more than half a century after the first expeditions to the moon of the Apollo mission. Then the study of the surface of the moon gave a lot of material for the study of the celestial body and its influence on the Earth. In parallel with the lunar orbit, humanity plans to conquer the Martian expanses. But these are only plans for the near future. Today, NASA astronauts continue to conduct space research at the International space station which is in earth orbit. Of course, it is not so easy to see the entire disk of the Earth from there, but astronauts can see other, no less colorful pictures of the earth's expanses. In addition, the Moon in orbit becomes closer, and it can be better seen.
The International Space Station, while orbiting the Earth, at an altitude of more than 27 thousand kilometers, manages to fly around our planet almost 16 times in one day. It takes approximately 93 minutes to complete one lap. During this time, the cosmonauts on board, in addition to research, manage to catch incredibly beautiful shots of the orbital expanses of our planet. And together with them we can enjoy a magnificent view of the moon.
At all times, mankind has been interested in what is on the other side of the moon.
After all, this celestial body never turns the other side to the earth, since the Moon does not rotate like the Earth around its axis.
The whole world was able to see its dark side for the first time only in the middle of the last century, thanks to Soviet scientists.
The world's first photo of the far side of the moon was received on October 7, 1959 from the Luna-3 satellite.
This picture was taken with a conventional film camera. For film development and production unique photos then it took a lot of time, because all the manipulations took place right on board the spacecraft.
To transmit this image to Earth, a special electrical device had to count all the black and light dots in the image, and already on Earth, the same device with a ray painted an identical image.
The quality of the photographs at that time did not differ in the clarity of the image, so what they saw made the scientists think about what they saw.
And from the far side of the moon, dark blurry spots were visible. Nothing specific astrophysicists could not see them.
Some time later some more pictures were taken. Rumors spread to the masses that there were alien space bases on the other side of the moon. Allegedly, the members of the Apollo crews were the first witnesses who were able to see these "alien settlements" on the Earth's satellite. But none of them ever admitted it.
Scientists continue to argue that NASA authorities and leadership are hiding information from the inhabitants of our planet about what the dark side of the moon actually hides. But those photographs that have leaked to the media indicate that on the other side of the earth's satellite are the ruins of ancient buildings and traces of technology.
The rich human fantasy also dared to suggest the presence on the dark side of the Moon of towers and castles made of transparent glass, reminiscent of the purest crystal. Even the scientists themselves say that there are caves, giant letters and other inexplicable objects.
Whether this is so, or this information does not correspond to reality, but the only indisputable fact is that the celestial body will not soon reveal its secrets and mysteries to us.
The passage of the moon on the earth's disk And humanity in this vast universe is only a small grain of sand, which can in no way affect the processes taking place in space.
The first picture of the Earth from the Moon, 1966 The view of the Moon from the Earth has not surprised anyone for a long time. After all, a person can see the beauty of this celestial body every day, even without leaving his own house, but simply looking out of his window.
But not everyone can look at their planet from the outside. Such a spectacle was available only to a few people - members of the Apollo mission, who were able to land on the moon.
No one has ever seen the Earth from another celestial body or planet. But we have wonderful photographs of the Earth taken on the Moon.
The uniqueness of these images is undeniable, because our planet, depicted in them, is presented only from certain angles.
The first photograph of the Earth from the Moon was taken by the Lunar Orbit rover in August 1966.
On that day, the spacecraft took more than 300 images of a celestial body on its surface.
In December 1968, astronaut William Anders, a member of the Apollo 8 crew, took the following photo of our planet called Earthrise. Then the first representatives of the Apollo mission only flew around the moon.
Then a small photo session was held by the crew members of Apollo 11 when they were the first to set foot on the surface of the moon.
In images taken at a later time by other rovers, one can see various effects when the Earth rises on the lunar horizon, or sets behind it.
It all depends on the human perception of objects at different distances. In other photos, we see that the Earth looks absolutely small in relation to the Moon.
In 2019, it will be 50 years since the moon felt a human footprint.
And soon the American space agency NASA, together with the US government and commercial partners, plans to continue studying the moon and launch another lunar expedition.
But this will not happen until 2023. Then, perhaps, new ones will appear on our planet. nice pictures earth satellite. In the meantime, we can only enjoy the photos that are available today.
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Gemini 10 is an American manned spacecraft. Eighth manned flight under the Gemini program.
Crew: John Young - commander; Michael Collins - pilot.
Launch: July 18, 1966 22:20:27 UTC
Landing: July 21, 1966 21:07:05 UTC
In the first photo, the unidentified object itself and its magnification by 12 times. On the second, the original NASA. Photo #: S66-45774_G10-M_f Photo: NASA
Crew members: Gordon Cooper (Leroy Gordon Cooper) - commander, Charles Conrad (Charles Conrad) - pilot. Launch: August 21, 1965 13:59:59 UTC Landing: August 29, 1965 12:55:13 UTC Image #: GT5-50602-034_G05-U The first two photos are different magnifications of the UFO, the third photo is part of the original NASA frame. Photo: NASA
This unidentified, completely real, object was photographed by US astronaut, Air Force Major James McDivitt during the 8th US manned space flight on the Gemini 4 (Gemini) spacecraft on June 3-7, 1965. He watched and filmed it through a technical porthole. He then decided to film the UFO through another, but the object disappeared. One photo is NASA original, the second photo is a UFO enlargement. See both frames! Frame #: GT4-37149-039_G04-U Photo: NASA
This unidentified, completely real, object was photographed by US astronaut Air Force Major James McDivitt during the 8th US manned space flight on the Gemini 4 (Gemini) spacecraft on June 3-7, 1965. He watched and filmed it through a technical porthole. He then decided to film the UFO through another, but the object disappeared. One photo is NASA original, the second photo is a UFO enlargement. See both frames! Frame No.: GT4-37149-039_G04-U
On April 17, 2002, the International Space Station was photographed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in a close-up (see the original in full size), but in addition to the ISS, a UFO in the background was included in the frame. The first photo is an enlargement of the UFO and showing where it is, the second photo is the original NASA. Photo #: STS110-E-5912 Photo: NASA
He, as if specially posed for the astronauts (the pictures show how the UFO turns in different directions to the shuttle), but most likely he made maneuvers and in the last sixth frame you can see that he turned to the Earth and turned on the engines. These photographs, like many others, were classified, but one of the employees of the Space Center. Johnson, having access to classified files, published them in in social networks, and remained undiscovered. In January 2013, NASA removed the photographs from their archives, as well as the numbers of these photographs. See all six NASA UFO photos in full size! As well as my UFO zooms! Publication: UFO Researcher Photo #: STS088-724-66 Photo: NASA
UFO in near-Earth space!
Astronaut Piers J. Sellers, STS-121 mission specialist, participates in the second session of the extravehicular activity (EVA) mission. Working with him is astronaut Michael E. Fossum (not in this frame). The duration of the spacewalk lasted 6 hours and 47 minutes, and all this time they were photographed and filmed from the windows of the International Space Station by astronauts of the 13th expedition to the ISS and astronauts of the 121st mission under the shuttle flight program. It was this photo that was taken by one of the astronauts of the Discovery shuttle, and some of the shots included a real UFO flying towards Earth. The first photo is the original NASA, and the second is the maximum enlarged UFO. See both photos. Researcher UFO Photo #: S121-E-06224 (July 10, 2006) Credit: NASA
This is an image with an unidentified moving (moving) object that really represents a certain unit or a lunar rover, which is clearly not of human production, because. its dimensions are several tens of meters, both in length and in width. Also, without magnification, deep traces left by a moving (moving) unidentified object are clearly visible. Recently, the Schroeter Valley officially received a new name "Secrets of the Schroeter Valley". Yet modern science and scientists began to look at the world differently. So, in this valley, some buildings and structures were discovered that absolutely do not fall under the category of geological formations. Also, direct tunnels (pipes) stretching along the surface of the Moon were found, which go in a straight line regardless of the terrain, i.e. whether it be a hill, any elevation, a crater. Also, perfectly smooth entrances (exits) under the surface of the Moon were discovered, which have hemispherical shapes and with the development of lunar soil near these entrances. Over time, I will publish them. So. Now the scientific data: The Schroeter Valley is named after the German astronomer Johann Schroeter (1745-1816); officially received the name in 1961 (now called: Secrets of the Schroeter Valley); In fact, a crater was first named after him, and in accordance with accepted rules, valleys are named after the geological structures closest to them - craters or mountains. Mysteries of the Schroeter Valley on the Moon: Alien Rover Now about the image: Date taken May 27, 2010 Time: 21:41:05 Orbital altitude: 4238 meters Longitude: 307.37 ° Center of Latitude: 25.01 ° Resolution: 0.60 m on pixel. Researcher UFO Image: LRO Photo: NASA MAXIMUM POSSIBLE ALIEN ROVER ENHANCEMENT!!! SEE ALSO THE FIRST ORIGINAL PICTURE FROM NASA!!!
Unidentified object from Apollo 11 July 17, 1969 This photograph was taken from Apollo 11 as astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin flew from Earth to the Moon for the first landing on its surface. It's hard to say what it is, but they saw it with their own eyes. Maybe it's a UFO shrouded in some kind of energy protection, or maybe it's some kind of plasma (possibly alive). So, the first photograph reflects the reality that the astronauts saw, only it was digitized by NASA a long time ago, and it conscientiously and qualitatively does not differ from the original color image, which must be given to these people. The second is an increase in an unidentified object or phenomenon in a different spectrum, in order to look in a different light. The third is also a digitized photograph, only NASA retouched the object, which is very clearly visible in full size (since the screens are different, you can brighten the image. I can see very well that the object is "blurred") and changed the color scheme of the Earth, and also see poor quality digitization when viewed in full size, which is very clearly visible when comparing 1 and 3 photos. So, relatively recently, NASA removed the real photo with an unidentified object and posted the one without an object in space, i.e. I have it third. I recommend watching the first one in full size Beauty and UFO! Researcher UFO Photo: NASA
Photograph of Earth and 100% Real UFO taken from Space Shuttle Endeavor Snapshot #: STS108-703-93_3 December 5-17, 2001
The first image is a NASA original. The second is the maximum magnification showing where the object is located. The first one should be viewed in full size. Image #: AS08-16-2594 Photo: NASA
Shuttle Discovery Mission: STS-096 Photo #: STS096-706-2 Date taken: May 27, 1999 Time: 11:28:57 GMT Photo: NASA enlarged unidentified object.
The panorama was taken in near lunar orbit during the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972 (this is the first photo). In this panorama, in addition to the lunar landscape, a giant structure was filmed, which throws out into the surrounding space one giant and much smaller something similar to electricity or lightning. The large image (6.6 GB) shows the structures of these emissions, and also that one end of this structure, which is illuminated by sunlight, goes into the lunar surface. The second photo is this power plant in the center and the third photo is an enlargement. See all three photos! UFO Researcher Photo #: AS16-P-4095 Apollo 16 April 21, 1972 Credit: NASA
This is one of the photographs taken during the STS-100 mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. In this case, the Space Shuttle Endeavor performed its mission in orbit. This photo was taken by one of the astronauts when they went out into outer space, namely from the airlock. This mission took place in April 2001, and for more than 12 years, neither the astronauts themselves, nor NASA employees, nor lovers of photographs from space noticed a flotilla of UFOs from five objects in this photograph. Three days ago, one of the American ufologists published this photo and various magnifications and other specials on YouTube. effects. I decided to follow him and went to the NASA public archives and also downloaded this photo. She is the first here, the second is also her, only I put an arrow indicating the location of the objects, and the third and fourth are different magnifications. Text: Researcher UFO Photo #: STS100-708A-48 Photo: NASA
Astronaut Jean-Pierre Haignere, the first to fly from ESA and spent six months on the Russian space station MIR as a flight engineer, photographed this real UFO. First published by Stephen Hannard on June 10, 2013.
A dilapidated structure on the Moon This structure is only a small part of the structures and structures on the Moon! Almost all researchers believe that this, and many other structures on the moon, are the work of a previous civilization of ours, other human civilizations, and not aliens and aliens. Mankind is about a million years old and believe me with stones and axes they did not run all the time. This happened perhaps when civilizations perished. And there are real alien bases on the Moon, or more precisely, under the surface of the Moon. This is reliable information from contactees who were actually taken to the moon. There is footage not only from American missions, but also from China's recent missions to the moon. So there it is already more abruptly than this structure and it is whole and unharmed. There are also structures more than five kilometers long. In general, a lot of different buildings and structures have already been discovered, and only a very small part can be said that this is not the work of people. Let the ancient civilizations.
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Secret photos of the Moon collected from various sources from around the world.
lunar base entrance
bases on the moon
Astronauts flying to the moon under the Apollo program were very often accompanied by UFOs (unidentified flying objects). The official NASA photo (AS12-497319) taken during the Apollo 12 mission clearly captured a large UFO hovering over the moon.
The policy of governments regarding keeping the truth about UFOs secret from the general public is excellently described and documented in several books by famous astronomers, such as Allen Hynek (U.S. Air Force UFO consultant), Major Donald Keyhoe (Donald Keyhoe) , Timothy Good (his book "Top Secret") and many other professional researchers. One of the undisputed experts we can trust is Christopher Kraft, former director of NASA. He gave us the following recording (after he left his post at NASA) made in Houston during the Apollo 11 lunar mission:
ASTRONAUTS NEIL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ ALDRIN speak from the Moon: “These are gigantic things. No, no, no... It's not optical illusion. There can be no doubt about that!”
MISSION CONTROL (HOUSTON CENTER): “What… what… what? What the hell are you doing there? What happened?"
ASTRONAUTS: "They're here below the surface."
MISSION CONTROL: “What is there? Communication was interrupted ... the control center is calling Apollo 11."
ASTRONAUTS: “We saw several visitors (visitors). They were there for a while, checking the equipment."
FLIGHT CONTROL: “Repeat your last message.”
ASTRONAUTS: “I say there are other spaceships here. They stand in a straight line on the other side of the crater."
FLIGHT CONTROL: "Repeat...repeat!"
ASTRONAUTS: “Let us probe this sphere… 625 to 5… automatic relay connected… My hands are trembling so much that I can't do anything. Take it off? Oh my God, if those damned cameras pick up anything… what then?”
MISSION CONTROL: “Can you film anything?”
ASTRONAUTS: “I don't have any film on hand anymore. Three shots from the “saucer”, or whatever it is called, ruined the film.”
MISSION CONTROL: "Regain control! Are they in front of you? Any UFO noises heard?”
ASTRONAUTS: “They landed here! They are here and they are watching us!”
FLIGHT CONTROL: "Mirrors, mirrors... can you adjust them?"
ASTRONAUTS: “Yes, they are in the right place. But those who built these ships may arrive tomorrow and remove them. Once and forever."
It makes sense that if government agencies have discovered secret UFO bases, they should keep it from the public and develop a “cover story” to hide the truth about the moon. However, the problem was that the witnesses were "talking" to our Division regarding alien cases.
Among the experts who informed us about life on the Moon and the discoveries of astronauts were Farida Iskiovet, a former UFO consultant to the President of the United Nations, the mysterious Mr. English, who took top secret photography for NASA and lunar astronauts, former Commander of Naval Intelligence Mark Huber, who knew a large amount of top secret data, Sergeant Willard Wannal, who served in Army Intelligence, Major Wayne Aho (Wayne S. Aho) Dr. James Hurrah of the NASA space program, and others who have classified clearances, while serving in military intelligence submitted UFO research materials to Congress. I have personally spoken to all of the aforementioned researchers.
Heightened interest in life on the moon captured public opinion after reports on the radio about the experiments of Marconi Tesla (Marconi Tesla), who tried to transmit radio signals to the moon and get a response to them, this really took place. After that, American, British and French astronomers reported flashes of light, flickering and even moving lights on the surface of the moon. During the 20-30 years one can find numerous reports of this kind of phenomena in a variety of newspapers and magazines, which can still be found in libraries. This interest reached its apogee when the eminent expert in aerial phenomena, the Pulitzer Prize, who defeated astronomer John O'Neill, publicly announced the discovery of an artificial "bridge" on the Moon. There were other witnesses who observed a 12-mile-long "bridge" that had not been there before and which later disappeared for unknown reasons (was it too noticeable?). This incident happened in the early 1950s.
Many Gemeni and Apollo astronauts have reported seeing UFOs during their flights. So, astronaut Gordon Cooper (Gordon Cooper) publicly admitted that he observed a controlled vessel of extraterrestrial origin (we saw his photos of UFOs). James McDivitt also took photographs of UFOs during the orbit around the Earth, we saw them. while orbiting Earth and we saw them too. The Soviet space program in the 1960s, designed to set a new orbital time record, was bizarrely aborted after the ship took up position. Private investigators with powerful radio equipment claimed that Soviet cosmonauts were escorted into orbit by UFOs that surrounded them and began tossing them back and forth as if the Soviet ship were a ball. The astronauts, having fallen into a panic, were ordered to immediately return back to Earth.
During the 1950s, a large number of UFOs seen on Earth returned to the Moon. Their trajectories were tracked by secret government surveillance complexes located in the deserts of Arizona and Nevada, as well as in underground bases located inside the mountains. WE HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH OF A DISC-SHAPED VESSEL FLYING OVER THE SURFACE OF THE MOON, taken by a civilian astronomer. Sgt. Willard Vannail, who investigated the UFO landing in Oahu (Oahu) while serving in military intelligence, showed us 8 or 10 clear glossy photographs of a silvery spacecraft hovering above the lunar surface. It was estimated to be several miles in size and said to be a MOTHER SHIP (MASTER SHIP) designed to transport many thousands of people between solar systems or galaxies for long periods of time in complete self-sustainment (autonomous mode)!
In the period from 1950 to the 60s. civilian astronomers have noticed new movements on the Moon, light anomalies, constant light sources, usually located inside craters, along with mysterious cruciform flashes.
Soviet and American spacecraft (located in orbit around the Moon) have begun photographing the mysterious structures on the Moon discovered by NASA. There were scientists, such as Fred Steckling, who demanded an explanation from the so-called “citizen agency”. It's amazing how NASA could release these photos WITHOUT COMMENTS! Many structures could only be seen at higher magnification.
The American spacecraft RANGER II sent 200 photographs of lunar craters with domes inside. These domes were not new. They were reported in the media by French astronomers some 48 years ago. 33 Moon dome photos sent in by Lunar Orbitter 2 were released without comment in Washington D.C. in 1967. On July 1, 1966, NASA officially admitted in the media that the astronauts saw UFOs, however, later denied this information (for those who collect official reports on UFOs, it will not be difficult to find a large number of contradictory statements proving the concealment of the truth). All this did not stop astronaut Gordon Cooper from publicly declaring: “I believe in aliens because I saw their spacecraft with my own eyes” (during the flight of Gemeni 16). Our "Blair cuspids" file contains photographs taken from lunar satellites, which show strange spiers that form regular geometric shapes. A tall white spire, similar to the Washington Monument, has been photographed on the surface of the Moon along with mysterious straight paths or trails that do not swerve through craters, hills, valleys and rock piles. Some of the domes had flashing lights.
Several NASA photographs that we were able to see showed a long, cigar-shaped object lying on the surface of the Moon, which was later absent from other photographs. We saw a photo of the pyramid on the dark side (back side). The DARK SIDE is always hidden from our eyes and telescopes and, obviously, is an ideal place for the construction of a secret spaceport by aliens. The lack of atmosphere is not a problem when we think of domes with artificial environment. Even NASA admits that scientists have the technology (but not the billions of dollars) to build artificially air-conditioned underground bases like the ones the military builds for themselves.
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell confidentially told Farida Iskiovet, a representative of our Department, that he had seen a UFO on the Moon.
In 1978, a mysterious stocky man in the appearance of a typical agent, appeared in Maui (Maui), calling himself Mr. English. His full name I can't name. He had NASA's TOP SECURITY security clearance. He told me that he was a staff photographer for the Apollo program, photographed the wreckage of a crashed disk in a hangar at a secret Air Force base in Texas, saw UFOs during the flight of astronauts. He gave us a lot of UFO data and admitted that the astronauts did see a spacecraft on the moon, and also confirmed the use of the moon by UFOs.
On February 3, 1966, the Soviet automatic interplanetary station (AMS) Luna-9 was the first in the world to make a soft landing on the surface of an Earth satellite.
Seven communication sessions were conducted with the station with a total duration of more than eight hours, during which the AMS transmitted a panoramic image of the lunar surface near the landing site in the Ocean of Storms.
Remembering this event, "RG" selected five of the most unusual photos lunar surface taken in different years.
rolling boulders
In different places on the moon, traces were recorded, left, apparently, by rolling boulders. First similar shots appeared in the early 1970s, their collection is still growing.
These traces raise a lot of questions among researchers. Somewhere at the end there really is a huge boulder, but somewhere they cannot be found (what then left a mark?). The trajectory is also curious - boulders move not only up, but also down. Some, judging by the tracks, rolled into the crater, and then rolled out of it.
In this case, it is completely incomprehensible what force could make huge stones move along such strange trajectories? Scientists have put forward a version of volcanic impact, but there is no unequivocal confirmation of it yet. Moreover, while experts cannot even determine when these traces were formed and how long it took to form them.
It is believed that the first furrows on the moon were discovered about 200 years ago with the help of telescopes. And the first photographs of this unusual phenomenon were taken by the crew of Apollo 10 in 1969 - then the US manned spacecraft flew only 14 kilometers above the lunar surface.
Now there are three types of furrows: arcuate (form smooth arcs), winding, consisting of several curves, and rectilinear. The latter can reach a length of 250 kilometers, and on this moment are the least studied in terms of the cause of occurrence. So far, scientists have put forward a more or less plausible version regarding the appearance of twisting beards: most likely, these are traces of ancient lava flows.
"Alien Base"
On January 16, a video of a user with the nickname WowForReeel appeared on YouTube, who studied the Moon using the Google Moon service. On the reverse side of the satellite near the Sea of Moscow, with a strong approach, you can see a strange "object" - seven points located at right angles. "To verify the authenticity of my find, just enter the Google Moon coordinates 22042"38 0.46 N and 142034"44 0.52 E," wrote WowForReeel.
As the user noted in his video, the object is completely atypical for this part of the moon - there is nothing like it in the district. Based on the shape and size of the triangle, WowForReeel suggested that it could be an alien base, or the wreckage of their spaceship.
The "sensation" was immediately picked up by the English newspaper Mirror, but a little later, images of this part of the moon made by NASA's LRO lunar probe, whose cameras have a higher resolution, appeared on the Web. No triangle is visible on them, and the mysterious "object" is a hill and a shadow cast by it.
Brown Moon
A sudden sensation was created by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu (Jade Hare), which landed on the moon in December last year. On the pictures of the lunar surface transmitted by him, it is clearly seen that the soil of the Earth's satellite is brownish in color, while most of the pictures of NASA spacecraft show the Moon as gray.
Conspiracy theorists cite a photo taken during the landing of the Apollo 17 mission as an argument. It shows an astronaut photographing himself against a gray lunar landscape, while brown ground is reflected in his spacesuit!
Opponents of the conspiracy theory give their arguments. Firstly, the lunar surface can have different shades depending on the time of day, the predominance of one or another substance in a particular area of the soil, etc. Secondly, a lot depends on the recording equipment, the filters used, as well as the methods of post-processing. Some colors can really get out.
Someone believes that by doing so NASA hides the truth about the Moon from mere mortals, and someone, on the contrary, that as a result of processing, the images become more distinct. By the way, on the same NASA site you can find photos of the Moon in different shades, and not just cement gray.
traces of life
For many years, disputes have not subsided about whether the Americans were still on the moon, or whether their landing on the Earth's satellite is just a Hollywood trick. It seems that NASA was so fed up with these conversations that at the first opportunity it tried to send its new vehicles precisely to film the Apollo landing site.
In the summer of 2012, the American LRO probe was able to take high-resolution pictures of the Apollo 12 landing site. The photo shows the things left by the astronauts, as well as the remains of the Surveyor 3 apparatus. He arrived on the Moon two years before the landing of the astronauts, and among the tasks was just the development of a safe lunar landing.
True, recently NASA again added fuel to the fire of the dispute between those who believe and do not believe in astronauts landing on the moon. The agency, concerned about the plans of other countries to study the moon, demanded that a 75-meter quarantine zone be observed not only around the remnants of American devices, but even the traces left by them.
