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Uploaded by on Feb 27, 2008

Read more: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13388
The latest data on the terrain of the Moon's south polar region have been used to make this animation, which shows what future astronauts would see during a descent to the rim of Shackleton Crater (Courtesy of NASA)

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  • The Russians would have made a lot of noise if it had been a hoax. They had the equipment to check.

  • lol thanks, I guess I don't know as much about subatomic particles as I thought I did. I'll stick with my Biology XP

    but yea, it was Helium-3 that I was thinking about, I forgot exactly where I read it and apparently what they said verbatim. My apologies and thank you for correcting me.

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  • @ImaginationAnimation It has been a year but actually you can see the stars very well from the moon. The reason you don't see them in footage is because of the cameras used. The moon is a good place to put a telescope because of the lack of distortion caused by the atmosphere.

  • Yeah, not in fahrenheit or anything, hehe!: )

  • measured in C, right? :P

  • Hehe, how dumb and ignorant do you have to be to believe that the moon landings were huge hoaxes? I think you almost have to have room-temperature IQ or something.. : )

  • Actually, in some ways, it' BETTER to send a man into the dangerous areas, because a man can react better to unknown situations then a robot can.

  • Yeah pretty scary : )

    I dont think they will go inside, will they? Seems too dangerous to even consider. Maybe they can drop in a rover or roll a ball probe down the side.

  • Not enough ram to animate all of them. This is a simulation, you know.:)

  • Hey Dim Wit guss what !

    On the moon you can't see stars and MAN did land on the moon.

    Now I bet you'll complain "But on Apollo 11 why was the flag rippling?" Well the fact is the the horizontil poll didn't enstend well and the frabric got scrunched up.

    I am an AUSSIE and you are an AMERICAN and you don't even belive that your own men landed on the moon!

    One more thing I am only 12 years old and I know all this.

  • Holy shoite. That is one freakishly huge crater.

  • harrisonhiroyuki: You sir are a Richard Cranium!!

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