Recent images taken by the Indian Space Research Organization’s lunar orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the landing sites of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 more than 50 years later.
The images were taken by the Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft in April 2021 and were reshared on the Curiosity X page – which posts about space exploration – on Wednesday.
“Photo of Apollo 11 and 12 taken by the Indian spacecraft orbiting the moon,” Curiosity wrote on the X website, along with overhead images showing the landers on the moon’s surface. Moon landing deniers refused.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on the moon.
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Recent images taken by the Indian Space Research Organization’s lunar orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the landing sites of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 more than 50 years later. (Indian Space Research Organization)
Astronaut Michael Collins, the third man on the Apollo 11 mission, remained in orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong walked on the moon’s surface.
The lunar module, known as Eagle, was left in lunar orbit after rendezvousing with the Collins command module the next day, and Eagle eventually landed back on the lunar surface.
The Apollo 12 mission was NASA’s second manned mission to land on the Moon on November 19, 1969, with Charles “Pete” Conrad and Alan Beane becoming the third and fourth man to walk on the Moon’s surface.
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin deploys a science experiment package on the moon’s surface. In the background is the Lunar Module, as is the US flag. (Photo by Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images) (Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images)
The Apollo missions continued until December 1972, when the program was discontinued 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 images of the 1969 lunar landers were taken.
Next to NASA’s Apollo 12 “Intrepid” lunar module, US astronaut Alan Bean unloads equipment from the Modular Equipment Storage Array (MESA) on the lunar surface, November 19, 1969. (NASA/Temporary Archive/Getty Images)
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India also launched Chandrayaan-3 last year, which became the first mission to successfully land near the lunar south pole.