Apollo 11 and 17 imaged by South Korea

[onebigmonkey]

Quietly, and without too much fuss, South Korea has been photographing the lunar surface, and has managed to get shots of Apollo 11 and Apollo 17's lunar modules. They've also imaged a decent chunk of Hadley Rille - they just miss the landing site, but photos taken of the rille are, unsurprisingly, a perfect match for those taken during Apollo 15.

Here's their tweet about it:

https://twitter.com/kari2030/status/1706532004945412205

The raw images are available here:

https://www.kari.re.kr/kpds/published/KPLO/KPLO/PublicRelease/LUTI/Data

There's a view of Apollo 11 taken in May that isn't yet availalbe.

If you want to grab the files yourself, search for these in the lists:

Apollo 11 (March 2023 folder)

KPLO_LUTIA_230330_074522_

Apollo 17 (March 2023 folder)

KPLO_LUTIA_230329_180702_

Hadley Rille (February 2023 folder)

KPLO_LUTIA_230205_051116_

There are .img and .png formats, as well as RAW and Processed versions (I've edited out the parts of the filename that reference raw/calibrated). Each specific time and date from 'LUTIA' has a companion 'LUTIB' image if you want to view the wider site.

Here are Apollo 11 and 17 from my own processing:





And Apollo 11 from May 2023 that isn't yet public as a raw image



They idenitfy the large white flare as the LRRR.

[Zakalwe]

Sheesh.
Even S. Korea are part of the global conspiracy and are doing their bit to maintain it even after all these years!

/s

[onebigmonkey]

And now there's every chance that Apollo 15 has been viewed by Danuri's "Shadowcam" imager. Designed to look in areas normally in darkness, it's also been used to see the lunar surface under Earthshine conditions.

Here's their image browser:

https://data.ser.asu.edu/lunaserv.html

and the specific link to the data:

https://data.ser.asu.edu/mds/shadowcam_published/M017102838S

With a lot of forcing (HDR toning, increasing the dpi etc etc), I've been able to compare the Apollo 15 landing site with the LRO view:



For my money, there is something there where the LM should be, and a hint of a trail to the ALSEP site.

[onebigmonkey]

The shadowcam now has images of more of the Apollo sites.

Apollo 11 and 12 don't disturb the ground enough, but 14 and 16 did. Here's a dark blob at the LM site for Apollo 14:



And here's the LM and LRV at its VIP spot for Apollo 16

[onebigmonkey]

S Korea continue to add more Apollo photos without any fuss. Yesterday I found Apollo 15 and 14:






Because they're pretty good at labeling relevant files in their xml I worked out how to grab all the xml files from their data dump, which can then be searched for Apollo, so expect more!

[onebigmonkey]

And Apollo 12:

[onebigmonkey]

And finally (for now), another Apollo 17 one taken in June last year:

[onebigmonkey]

Another update from South Korea, with another nice view of Apollo 14

[onebigmonkey]

But wait, there's more: two beautiful shots of Apollo 15's LM taken in August last year on successive orbits.

[onebigmonkey]

And yet more - an oblique Apollo 15 and 2 Apollo 12s

[onebigmonkey]

Apollo 16, imaged 24/09/23

[bknight]

You know where A16 landed, but just given an image you might be hard pressed to describe what it shows.  Very fuzzy image in my mind.

[onebigmonkey]

You know where A16 landed, but just given an image you might be hard pressed to describe what it shows.  Very fuzzy image in my mind.

The Apollo 16 images are in this folder:

https://www.kari.re.kr/kpds/published/KPLO/KPLO/PublicRelease/LUTI/Data/202309

in RAW (unprocessed), PP (Partially Processed, ie cleaned up to remove digital striping), and CAL (selenorectified images with corrected projection). They're the LUTIB images taken on 23/09/24 at 11:59:42, so look for KPLO_LUTIB_230924_115942 in the filename.

I'm finding these by downloading the all .xml files and searching for 'Apollo'. They're pretty generous with their labelling, and more often than not a mission reference will be somewhere nearby rather than a direct overpass, but there are certainly plenty of actual hits. They aren't as sharp as the LRO, or India's OHRC, but they still show clear evidence of Apollo!

[BertieSlack]

Very fuzzy image in my mind.

They aren't as sharp as the LRO, or India's OHRC, but they still show clear evidence of Apollo!

Exactly. It's excellent corroboration.

[bknight]

You know where A16 landed, but just given an image you might be hard pressed to describe what it shows.  Very fuzzy image in my mind.

The Apollo 16 images are in this folder:

https://www.kari.re.kr/kpds/published/KPLO/KPLO/PublicRelease/LUTI/Data/202309

in RAW (unprocessed), PP (Partially Processed, ie cleaned up to remove digital striping), and CAL (selenorectified images with corrected projection). They're the LUTIB images taken on 23/09/24 at 11:59:42, so look for KPLO_LUTIB_230924_115942 in the filename.

I'm finding these by downloading the all .xml files and searching for 'Apollo'. They're pretty generous with their labelling, and more often than not a mission reference will be somewhere nearby rather than a direct overpass, but there are certainly plenty of actual hits. They aren't as sharp as the LRO, or India's OHRC, but they still show clear evidence of Apollo!

I didn't mean to imply that Apollo did not go to the Moon.  My thought was that the RAW, PP image was fuzzy and if you were shown the image and did not know anything about the image you would have a difficult task identifying what it shows.