India Chandrayaan And The Blow To Conspiracy Theory
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:48 pm
"In a considerable downer for space conspiracy theorists, Chandrayaan-1’s terrain-mapper camera has recorded images of the landing site of US spaceship Apollo 15 and tracks of its lunar rovers that were used by astronauts to travel on moon’s surface nearly four decades ago, a scientist said Wednesday."
Yes, it is a blow for the scores of conspiracy experts who stated on their highly popular blogs and forums that Apollo missions never happened. Even, taking that aside, both Japan and India have landed at least an unmanned craft each on the lunar surface and released footage. Russia failed - it's no longer a shadow of the USSR.
I suppose out of sheer desperation the online theorists might at some point go on to claim both India and Japan also staged their missions.
We should be very wary of how social media has been displacing science.
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/Chand ... 878668.ece
Yes, it is a blow for the scores of conspiracy experts who stated on their highly popular blogs and forums that Apollo missions never happened. Even, taking that aside, both Japan and India have landed at least an unmanned craft each on the lunar surface and released footage. Russia failed - it's no longer a shadow of the USSR.
I suppose out of sheer desperation the online theorists might at some point go on to claim both India and Japan also staged their missions.
We should be very wary of how social media has been displacing science.
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/Chand ... 878668.ece