{"id":109,"date":"2009-07-18T13:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2012-03-03T21:58:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T02:58:27","slug":"photos-from-lunar-orbit-show-apollo-14-landing-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/photos-from-lunar-orbit-show-apollo-14-landing-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from Lunar orbit show Apollo 14 landing site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8157368.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a> has an article today on some recent photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), showing the site of the Apollo 14 landing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_110\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Apollo14_Landing_Site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Apollo14_Landing_Site.jpg\" alt=\"Science instruments (circled left) and the lunar module lower stage (circled right) are connected by a footprint trail\" title=\"Apollo14_Landing_Site\" width=\"466\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Apollo14_Landing_Site.jpg 466w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Apollo14_Landing_Site-150x64.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Science instruments (circled left) and the lunar module lower stage (circled right) are connected by a footprint trail<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>A US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon, revealing hardware and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the images coincides with the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>The descent stages from the lunar modules which carried astronauts to and from the Moon can clearly be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The image of the Apollo 14 landing site shows scientific instruments and an astronaut footpath in the lunar dust.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time hardware left on the Moon by the Apollo missions has been seen from lunar orbit. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News has an article today on some recent photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), showing the site of the Apollo 14 landing: A US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon, revealing hardware and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface. The release of the images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15],"tags":[105,70,69,29],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-technology","tag-apollo","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13863,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}