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