LRO Images Apollo 12 Landing Site
NASA's new Moon orbiter LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has already imaged several Apollo landing sites, steadily improving the resolution as it is being lowered to the target science orbit. Here is an image of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module "Intrepid"'s lower stage near the previously landed Surveyor 3 probe in Oceanus Procellarum. There also are 235 Megabytes worth of raw image. Enjoy!
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This is the same scene as it presented itself back in 1969 to the astronauts on the lunar surface. The viewing direction is from the Surveyor 3 lander towards the Apollo 12 Lunar Module Intrepid. In the above image, this corresponds to looking from the lower right towards the upper left.
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