Nvidia's recreation of a classic moon landing image.
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Nvidia releases graphics re-creation software that proves the moon landing was real

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia is releasing the software it created to prove that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was real.

Over the years, conspiracy theorists have argued that a photo of astronaut Buzz Aldrin was a fake and that the whole moon landing was filmed in a studio. They argued that Aldrin should be obscured by shadows, based on the angle of the sun.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.