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Space mission to photograph Apollo landing sites Tim Radford, science editor Monday July 18, 2005 The Guardian US scientists are planning a 240,000-mile trip down memory lane - a tour of inspection of all the Apollo landing sites on the moon. In 2008 a powerful camera aboard a new spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will photograph the moon's surface in fine detail - fine enough to pick out the Apollo 17 moon buggy abandoned 33 years ago, along with lunar landing platforms and other relics. The camera will have a resolution of half a metre. So a moon buggy three metres long and two metres wide should show up clearly. |
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