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Show: Mythbusters
Network: Discovery Channel
Original Air Date: First Aired: Wednesday August 27, 2008
Announced by “This Week at NASA” on NASA TV on February 8, 2008. “The Marshall Space Flight Center hosted the Mythbusters television show.
The Mythbusters chose Marshall as one of several NASA locations for an episode to debunk the notion that NASA never landed on the moon. The cast conducted tests involving a feather, a weight, a lunar soil boot print, and a flag in a vacuum. A team of Marshall scientists helped with the tests.”
Myth #1: FAKED PHOTOS
One of the NASA photos is fake because the shadows of the rocks and lunar lander are not parallel.
BUSTED
NOTES: The Mythbusters built a small scale replica of the lunar landing site with a flat surface and a single distant spotlight to represent the Sun. They took a photo and all the shadows in the photo were parallel, as the myth proposed.
They then adjusted the topography of the model surface to include a slight hill around the location of the near rocks so the shadows fell on a slope instead of a flat surface. The resulting photograph had the same shadow directions as the original NASA photograph from Apollo 14.
Watch the video below as they bust the myth!!!
