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Scientist Rubbishes Apollo 15 Conspiracy Theory
Delhi, India (PTI) Sep 04, 2009 A Camera on board India's maiden unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has recorded images of the landing site of US spacecraft Apollo 15, a scientist said today, rubbishing conspiracy theories that the fourth US mission to land on the moon four decades back was a hoax. The Terrain mapper camera (TMC) on board Chandrayaan-1, which had an abrupt end a few days back, has sent the prints of landing site of Apollo 15 and tracks of the lunar rovers used by astronauts to travel on lunar surface, a senior scientist associated with India's lunar mission said during a presentation here. "The images captured by hyper spectral camera fitted as a part of Chandrayaan-1 image payload has reconfirmed the veracity of Apollo 15 mission," said Dr. Prakash Chauhan, who is a senior scientist with Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Hyderabad-based space application centre. Chauhan was presenting the findings of Chandrayaan-1 mission in his paper 'Chandrayaan-1: TMC and HYSI data analysis for Apollo landing sites and 'Mare Orientale', which would be unveiled in public domain two months later, after further analysis. The Chandrayaan-1 images have disproved the theory of conspiracy which had claimed that the Apollo 15 was a hoax, he said. "Chandrayaan-1 has managed to identify the landing site used by the Apollo 15 shuttle on the basis of the disturbances on the moon's surface," Chauhan said.
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