Orbiter photos show the lunar modules from the 2nd lunar landing more than 50 years later
The latest images taken by India's Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the sites of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 more than 50 years later.
The images were taken by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter in April 2021 and were re-shared on Curiosity's X page – which writes about space exploration – on Wednesday.
“Apollo 11 and 12 photo taken by India's Moon orbiter. Denies Moon Landing deniers,” Curiosity wrote on X, along with top photos showing the lunar landing vehicles.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on it.
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The latest images taken by India's Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the sites of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 more than 50 years later. (Indian Space Research Organisation)
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 the Eagle, was abandoned in lunar orbit after it collided with the command module Collins that was still on the horizon and the Eagle eventually returned to the surface of the moon.
Apollo 12 was NASA's second manned mission to land on the moon on Nov. 19, 1969, when Charles “Pete” Conrad and Alan Bean became the third and fourth men to walk on it.
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin deploys a scientific probe package on the surface of the moon. In the background is the Lunar Module, like the flag of the United States. (Photo by Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images) (Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images)
Apollo missions continued until December 1972, when the program was shut down 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 it took pictures of the 1969 moon landings.
Next to NASA's Apollo 12 'Intrepid' Lunar Module, American astronaut Alan Bean unloads the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) from the lunar surface, November 19, 1969. (NASA/Temporary Archives/Getty Images)
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India also launched Chandrayaan-3 last year, which was the first mission to successfully land on the south side of the moon.
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