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China Proves Conspiracy Theorists Wrong With High-Resolution Moon Photos

Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 6/02/2012 13:33 Updated: 21/02/2012 17:24

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Conspiracy theorists who think the Apollo moon landing never happened are weeping into their semi-skim decaf chai lattes today.

China has published a set of impressive high resolution images of the moon, which show the moon in never-before-seen detail. And yes, evidence of the Apollo landing was spotted by the scientists.

The images are huge, at a resolution of over seven metres, and were taken by the country's Chang'e-2 moon orbiter.

The first images of their kind, they were released by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) on Sunday.

Liu Dongkui, deputy chief commander of China's lunar probe project, said they are the highest-resolution photos of the entirety of the moon's surface to be published thus far by any country.

The shots were taken at distances of 100 km and 15 km above the moon's surface, between October 2010 and May 2011.

See images and video below.


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Conspiracy theorists who think the Apollo moon landing never happened are weeping into their semi-skim decaf chai lattes today. China has published a set of impressive high resolution images of th...
Conspiracy theorists who think the Apollo moon landing never happened are weeping into their semi-skim decaf chai lattes today. China has published a set of impressive high resolution images of th...
 
 
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tyrebayjohnny
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01:08 on 07/04/2013
this page is as old as the moon...ish...
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moontruther
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22:56 on 25/01/2013
What about this conspiracy? If you reverse any lunar image and overlay it over the earth at about 4 times the said size, what do you get? The true size of the moon, and the correct geologic history of the earth. Don't believe me? Try it yourself, it's quite easy. It doesn't take long before you get it all figured out. Mare Oriental is one that China should know a little about, since it hit the Tibetan Plateau, and Himalayas . This is what creates this huge hole in the moon, called the Mare Oriental Basin. Just place the plateau into the basin, which is reversed. This crater will also fit the subduction near New Zealand, South America, the North Pole, South Pole, Indonesia, and just about everywhere on the earth. The moon;s south pole is a huge contributor when it comes to shaping the earth as well. Imbrium, Australe, Smythii, all big impacts match the earth's surface, beautifully!.
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HappyGuy69
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03:02 on 28/08/2012
Okay....so where are the stunning HD photos of Apollo 11.

This article is misleading...
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Fawxky
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05:30 on 07/08/2012
do some research on the history of the computer ~____~
nasa and the mission to the moon played HUGE rolls in devolving computer programming...
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Fawxky
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05:31 on 07/08/2012
the contributions nasa has made to the world are NOT fictional =]
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JayyVee
It's not about Politics, it's about Morals..
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17:46 on 07/03/2012
Ok, so the birthers have taken a break to 'now' investigate the moon landings..

What kind of drugs were you folks fed in your infancy?!??

I expect to see the long-form cert on that moon landing..

BTW if you do a simple Google search for 'pictures of moon landing from earth' , you will be bombarded with proof that your mind will not be able to process. A little further down at the squidoo.com site, are actual pics from earth showing Apollo 11, 14, and 15's leftover junkets from their landing..
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HappyGuy69
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03:02 on 28/08/2012
HOAX!
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1512d
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15:50 on 09/02/2012
Where's the "irrefutable" evidence of it??? No One is going to trust govt agencies to "say so".
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bigmower1
57 Fans
14:50 on 09/02/2012
Ok, so lets see the actual proof of the moon landing then.
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HappyGuy69
10 Fans
03:02 on 28/08/2012
Right on!
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Rossi83
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19:31 on 07/02/2012
So after all there comments and questions nobody has actually said where in the photographs the evidende for human activity on the Moon is!! I genuinely can't see anything on them to suggest that people have stood on the Moon's surface, so I will ask again; TO ANYONE WHO CAN SEE ANYTHING ON THESE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT PROVES THAT THE APOLLO LUNAR MISSIONS WERE TOTALLY REAL, PLEASE COULD YOU TELL ME WHERE THE EVIDENCE IS? Thanks.
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dragon69
republicans should be jailed
464 Fans
22:35 on 07/02/2012
in any of the 1000,s of pictures and video taken since it happened
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TStringfellow
Wobbly, politically and literally
157 Fans
23:12 on 07/02/2012
A high school science class should've taught you all you needed to understand that the evidence in favor of a conspiracy is nonexistent.

Why does a flag wave on the moon when there is no wind? Because there is also no wind resistance, the movement created in the flag when it was punched into the ground has no air pushing against it to stop that movement.
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HappyGuy69
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03:03 on 28/08/2012
You're an idiot.
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Michael Roue
I have a growing lack of disgust for you.
82 Fans
18:36 on 07/02/2012
This comments section makes me sad, what a pathetic bunch of pessimists.
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HappyGuy69
10 Fans
03:05 on 28/08/2012
I got more computing power in my Blackberry than in Apollo 11's Command Module and LEM put together...

There is not enough computing power in my Blackberry to navigate to the moon....

If you are alive in 2069, and if the US has not returned to the moon, and if Wal-Mart and Target have not been to the moon , and if the Chinese have not been to the moon, what will you say?

The point is, how many years must go by-- with no return to the moon- for you to conclude it never happened?
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coffeeparty
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17:51 on 07/02/2012
I am dismayed by the amount of people who posted here who are sitting up in trees flinging feces at the rest of us.
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pete78
waiting for that big lotto win
30 Fans
17:48 on 07/02/2012
no way have we been to the moon ,1969 lucky to have a car that would do 80 mph not advanced enough just about do it now not then
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dragon69
republicans should be jailed
464 Fans
22:36 on 07/02/2012
you are just way to stupid to be considered human
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bigmower1
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14:53 on 09/02/2012
Then lets see the proof, it has been said that China claims to have pictures to prove it, so lets me see the pictures already, why the wait.
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JayyVee
It's not about Politics, it's about Morals..
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17:41 on 07/03/2012
no way people that think like you, that is for sure.

Here's a fun link. Course, photos didn't di it for you 40+ years ago, why we bother with nuts instead of canning them, is beyond me..

http://www.squidoo.com/apollo-moon-landing-photos-from-space
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HappyGuy69
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03:08 on 28/08/2012
Those photos are phoney baloney...

Ya know, in trying to debunk the C.T.'s, they always want to show photos that supposedly depict the bottom half of the LEM on teh moon....but what happened to the top half after they (supposedly) docked with the C.M.?

It's not about politics, it's about morals. For some reason, your morals close your mind to the truth...
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Neesagon
80 Fans
16:29 on 07/02/2012
I don't really care. It won't help me to pay my bills.
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blujag
25 Fans
15:40 on 07/02/2012
Waste of time and money searching for another planet.. we would only destroy that as well.
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kathycatch
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15:37 on 07/02/2012
if man did go to moon (WHY) have they never been back
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Leverage
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17:07 on 07/02/2012
You've not seen Apollo 18 the 'true story' then? Apparently the Russians went there too and they all got eaten bt Moon spiders!
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Michael Roue
I have a growing lack of disgust for you.
82 Fans
18:35 on 07/02/2012
we went back something like 6 times, thank you, and we haven't been back beyond that because we have the samples we're looking for and it's a barren rock besides
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cynic123
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15:05 on 07/02/2012
I could see shops and houses on the moon you look closly and see the houses in a row. O and the cow jumping over it
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