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Anyone want to place bets on the nationality of the next human to set foot on the moon?


I'd rather bet on Mars. And I'd bet American.


It'd be a Russian TV crew filming an empty spot that was supposed to be that of an Apollo landing :)


Why aren't there any pictures of the landing zones from orbit? Interesting.


There are some, but they are from NASA. A more interesting question is what happened to India's promise to release all its Lunar low-orbit reconnaissance mission data to the public. Or why there is virtually no data coming from Japanese mission of the same nature. Both with hidef ultrazoom cameras mind you.


In a couple of minutes of hunting I found the Kaguya data archive [http://l2db.selene.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/index.html.en] and the Chandrayaan-1 data archive [http://issdc.gov.in/CHBrowse/index.jsp]. So, uh, yeah, both countries released the data.



So you're implying that the Americans could fake several entire moon landing missions (to the satisfaction even of their bitter rivals the Soviets), but couldn't make some fake images from lunar orbit?




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