Visible traces astronaut on the Moon

Recent photos from the Moon probes like NASA's going to end the debate, whether the U.S. astronauts had actually landed on the Moon. Photographs taken from the spacecraft camera Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that shows the footprints of two Apollo astronauts are trying to reach a crater on the Moon. Photo shows the plains around the Apollo 14 landing site, where astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell set foot on the moon on February 5, 1971 using a lander Antares. The images shown last week showed that the two astronauts had approached the crater lip Cone Crater at a distance of about 30 meters before they decide to come back again. At first glance, the photo shows the moon's surface is smooth without any sign of human presence. However, if observed in more detail, see some trace of landing astronaut Antares and visible presence in the lower left side of the image. Trail shoes Shepard and Mitchell look slightly darker than the surrounding plains. Areas explored in Shepard and Mitchell in the Apollo 14 mission is hilly and rocky area called the Fra Mauro highlands. This mission is the third of six times the Apollo Moon landings between 1969 and 1972. LRO previously been sending photos Apollo 14 landing site and the area known as Tranquility Base, the location of the first landing on the Moon. Tranquility Base Apollo 11 astronauts landed on July 20, 1969. Hunt Cone Crater On February 6, 1971, on the second trip of the visit for 33 hours on the Moon, Shepard and Mitchell tried to reach Cone Crater to see the bottom. The crater is located about 1.4 km from Antares that the lander is not seen by the astronauts. In addition, the hilly region causes a tiring journey. Even worse, Shepard and Mitchell climbed difficulties in the smooth surface of the Moon. "The other problem, the surface instability in the region makes them difficult to mark their location through," writes Shepard, who died in 1998. "Ed and I have trouble deciding, which road will we take, how far we've walked, and where we are at it." "And then came the most frustrating moment of the journey. We thought that was close to the crater. But then, we were on the edge of craters smaller, and still quite far from Cone Crater," he wrote. "We were contacted Houston (mission control center) and tell us the position of doubt." Both ended up not continue the journey toward Cone Crater and returned to the lander Antares. In photos LRO, one marker location called Saddle Rock, had previously been photographed by Shepard and Mitchell-could be seen. From the photos it looks just how close to real astronauts from their destination. When Shepard and Mitchell walked on the surface of the Moon, their colleague, Stuart Roosa, orbiting the Moon in the command module. They left the moon on February 6, 1971 and returned to Earth three days later.