Recent images taken by the Indian Space Research Organisation’s lunar orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show this. Apollo 11 and the Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later.
The images were taken by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter in April 2021 and were re-shared on Wednesday on Curiosity’s X page — which posts about space exploration.
“Apollo 11 & 12 image taken by India’s lunar orbiter. Hats off to moon landing naysayers,” Curiosity wrote on X, along with images above that show the landing vehicles above. The surface of the moon.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin The first man to walk on its surface.
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Astronaut Michael Collins, the third man on the Apollo 11 mission, remained in orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong walked on the moon.
The lunar module, known as Eagle, was released into lunar orbit after it rejoined the command module Collins the following day, and Eagle eventually returned to the lunar surface.
Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed mission to land on the Moon on November 19, 1969, with Charles “Pat” Conrad and Alan Bean becoming the third and fourth men to walk on its surface.
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin deployed a scientific experiment package on the surface of the Moon. In the background is the lunar module, as is the United States flag. (Photo by Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images) (Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images)
The Apollo missions continued until December 1972, when the program was terminated and astronaut Eugene Cernan became the last man to walk on the moon.
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The Chandrayaan-2 mission was launched on July 22, 2019, exactly 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission and two years before the 1969 lunar landers took pictures.
With NASA’s Apollo 12 ‘Intrepid’ Lunar Module, American astronaut Alan Bean unloads supplies from the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) on the lunar surface on November 19, 1969. (NASA/Interim Archives/Getty Images)
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India also launched Chandrayaan-3 last year, which became the first mission to successfully land on the Moon’s south pole.