"Taking the overall OHCR Apollo 12 image, notwithstanding the lack of clarity, if this was a telescopic view through a ground-based telescope or even a transmission from a mission with no association whatsoever with NASA, there would be no question as to what the image shows. But as stated in September, although Chandrayaan-2 is an ISRO mission, the data is being jointly received by ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) and NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). Although NASA’s LRO had a camera supplied by Arizona State University (ASU), the incoming data from the LROC is first received by NASA’s White Sands Tracking Facility and then transferred to NASA’s Goddard Center. Only then is the data passed on to ASU – providing the opportunity for the images to be photo manipulated even before ASU receives them."
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