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Finally the tin-foil hats can be satiated when these tourists see the 50-ish year old flag on the moon.



No amount of data can convince a conspiracy theorist that they're wrong (the new data are just part of the conspiracy).

They'll just say the new images are faked, just as they say the original missions were.


NASA actually has a post on what the statuses of the flags are; they are probably bleached or disintegrated.[1] Interestingly, I would guess that the flag most likely to have survived would be the one from Apollo 11, because it was too close to the lander, and got knocked over by the ascent module; it may have been covered with dust and protected, but this is only a remote possibility.

note: the post says that the LROC shows shadows from the flags, but it seems highly unlikely they are pristine or even intact.

[1] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html


The LRO has provided great photos of Apollo landing sites with the LM base (and the Rovers for later missions) identifiable.

Still looking for the tall black monolith, though.


60-ish? More like 50-ish. I remember those landings and I'm nowhere near 60.

Weirdest thing, I can't delete this comment now that the other comment has been fixed.


Maybe they used an old flag?


edited.


The flags have been bleached white by the unfiltered solar UV due to lack of lunar atmosphere


There's even the reverse - People who claim they can pinpoint the U.S moon flag with a telescope, trying their hardest to convince others the landings were real.

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-see-the-American-flag-on-the-m...




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